> On Apr 7, 2010, at 9:22 AM, William Herrin wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:09 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) > > <nan...@adns.net> wrote: > >> Was looking at the ARIN IP6 policy and cannot find any reference to those > >> who have > >> IP4 legacy space. > >> > >> Isn't there an automatic allocation for those of us who have legacy IP > >> space. If not, is ARIN > >> saying we have to pay them a fee to use IP6? Isn't this a disincentive for > >> us to move up to IP6? > >> > >> Those with legacy IP4 space should have the equivalent IP6 space under the > >> same terms. Or am I missing something? > > > > Hi John, > > > > The game is: > > > > Sign ARIN's "Legacy RSA" covering your legacy space. With the LRSA you > > retain more rights than folks who sign the regular RSA, but probably > > less rights than you have now. > > More accurately, you retain more rights than the standard RSA and you > move from a situation where your exact rights are unknown and > undetermined with no contractual relationship between you and ARIN > to a situation where your rights are assured, enumerated, and a > contractual relationship exists between you and ARIN governing > the services you are receiving from ARIN. > > > Pay your $100/year as an end-user. You now qualify for an IPv6 > > assignment under ARIN NRPM 6.5.8.1b regardless of the size of your > > network. > > > > Pay the $1250 IPv6 initial assignment fee. > > This is correct. I would like to see initial registration fee waivers for > IPv6 end-user assignments. I've brought the subject up on arin-discuss. > There was substantial opposition to the idea. If you would like to see > that happen, I encourage you to voice your opinion there.
It's not the initial assignment fee that's really an impediment, it's moving from a model where the address space is free (or nearly so) to a model where you're paying a significant annual fee for the space. We'd be doing IPv6 here if not for the annual fee. As it stands, there isn't that much reason to do IPv6, and a significant disincentive in the form of the fees. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
