[136430] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 3 01:09:37 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <17286018.1914.1296696154135.JavaMail.root@zimbra.network1.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 22:08:29 -0800
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 2, 2011, at 5:22 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>=20
>>> Ooof. I didn't get that far - and hadn't realized the waiver was
>>> expired.
>>>=20
>>> That's a pretty signficant barrier to entry. :(
>>>=20
>> Um, I think you guys are mistaken...
>>=20
>> You're talking about ISP pricing, not end-user pricing.
>>=20
>> End user, a /48 will cost you $1,250 one-time and then it's part of
>> your usual $100/year that you would be
>> paying if you had an ASN or IPv4 space anyway.
>>=20
>> Owen
>=20
> And, even if you are an ISP, you only pay the larger of the two fees =
if you have both v4 and v6. I'm not sure if that is permanent or not, =
though.
>=20
> -Randy
To the best of my knowledge, the board has no intention of changing that =
policy.
I'd be surprised if that were the case.
Owen
