[136404] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Owen)
Wed Feb 2 19:57:06 2011
From: Chris Owen <owenc@hubris.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102021600280.54349@murf.icantclick.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 18:56:10 -0600
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:09 PM, david raistrick wrote:
> At least in ARIN territory, if you're multihomed, and you can show =
in-1-year use of 50% of a (v4) /24, you qualify for a PI v6 /48.=20
One of the things I find frustrating about this is the cost of the =
space. We're a very small shop and to add IPv6 addresses for testing =
now we're looking at paying another $2,200 a year ($1,700 in the first =
year) when it will probably be some time before we actually _need_ the =
addresses. The waivers a few years were a nice start but why does the =
cost need to double ever?
It isn't like ARIN needs the money, they have more than they can spend. =
Once we are a "member" and have IPv4 space, the marginal cost to ARIN =
of assigning the equivalent in IPv6 space is pretty close to zero. =
Maybe some sort of NRC but doubling the annual cost just doesn't make =
sense.
At least with IPv4 you can make the argument that the cost is =
artificially high to control usage but with IPv6 there are no more =
scarcity issues.
I'd love to add IPv6 to the network but it just rubs me the wrong way to =
have to pay $2,220 a year to do so for something that essentially has no =
cost. I can't imagine having to justify it to a bean counter.
Chris
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