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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 21 21:54:00 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <1287701974.10216.63.camel@karl>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:48:40 -0700
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 01:46 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> If your big enough to get your own GUA and have the dollars to get
>>> it routed then do that. If you are forced to use PA (think home
>>> networks) then having a ULA prefix as well is a good thing.
>>>
>> home network: 2620:0:930::/48
>
> In Oz it costs real money to get IPv6 address space from the RIR
> (APNIC). Around AUD$6K in the first year, around AUD$1100 each year
> thereafter.
>
> Your /48, according to the ARIN website, cost you US$625 this year, will
> cost US$937.50 next year, and $1250 every year thereafter.
>
Uh, no... You're misreading it.
It cost me $625 (or possibly less) one-time when I first got it.
After that, the annual $100/year has been part of the same $100/year
I've been paying for my IPv4 resources.
> Fairly trivial amounts for most commercial entities, but prohibitive for
> all but the most enthusiastic home user.
>
Agreed, but, at $100/year that I was already paying for IPv4, it seemed
pretty trivial. I bet you spend more than that at Starbucks each year.
Owen
