[155283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 End User Fee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Fri Aug 3 18:43:01 2012
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
In-Reply-To: <5FE1FB6D43B8A647BBC821840C1AEA8B017C12@ocsbs.ocosa.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 17:42:27 -0500
To: "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi,
On Aug 3, 2012, at 2:22 PM, "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com> =
wrote:
> Anyone charging end users for IPv6 space yet? :p
>=20
> Just wondering, with so many IPv6 resources in a single allocation it
> would seem difficult to charge anything at all.
>=20
> 1. How are you making up loss of revenue on IPv4 assignments?
If revenue from IPv4 assignments is an issue, then the solution is to =
adjust your business model to not depend on that revenue. As an ISP, =
the business is to ship bits around.
> 2. Are you charging anything?
Haven't ever charged for IPv6 allocations...
> 3. Is the cost built into the service?
The cost of IPv6 is so negligible (well unless you need advanced =
software licenses -- hi brocade), that I don't see any point in even =
accounting the cost of providing IPv6 into a service fee.
> 4. Do you assign IPv6 space to end user and charge admin fee?
By assign, do you mean SWIP? Some places charge an admin fee to do a =
SWIP, but for setting up an allocation, I have never heard of an admin =
fee.
William=
