On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 05:26:44PM -0500, b...@theworld.com wrote: > If the commitment really was to spread IPv6 far and wide IPv6 blocks > would be handed out for free, one per qualified customer (e.g., if you > have an IPv4 allocation you get one IPv6 block free), or perhaps some > trivial administrative fee like $10 per year.
It has been some time since I had to deal with RIRs directly, but my understanding was that if you had an IPv4 allocation, you got a reasonably sized chunk of IPv6 alongside for free. Not even an extra $10/year. FREE! Looking at ARIN's fee schedule (https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/), it does seem like that is still the case: > For organizations holding both ARIN-issued IPv4 and IPv6 allocations, the > fee is based on the larger of the two service categories. So you only need to pay extra for your IPv6 numbers if you've got a lot more of them than you've got IPv4. The only situation in which I could imagine that happening is if you were a (very) late-start eyeball network that had a tiny IPv4 allocation (and a *lot* of CGNAT), but were planning on handing out IPv6 /48s to every customer. - Matt
