> On Mar 2, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Matt Harris <m...@netfire.net> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 12:33 AM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com > <mailto:o...@delong.com>> wrote: > Sure… You have to maintain the tunnel or they may reassign/reallocate the > address. Here’s the reality of that, however: > > 1. Unless you care about reaching the customer they reassigned it to from > your network, you don’t care. > 2. Using it for ULA in addition to the tunnel isn’t really prohibited by > that. It’s a gray area, I’ll admit. > 3. Sure, they can cancel the service at any time, but you get what you pay > for. It saves you $100/year > while it lasts. > > Owen > > I'm not sure where you're getting the $100 figure from, ARIN's minimum fee > for an allocation is $250/year (for a /40 or smaller block) on top of > membership fees of $500/yr, so that's $750/yr to get a /48 from the North > American RIR (which is the only one I'm looking at today given that the > context is the nanog list). Additionally, tunnel providers can and have shut > down permanently at random - SixXS was among the largest providers, and they > shut down operations entirely last year. So any folks using space from them > had to renumber, either on to another tunnel provider's space, or to ULA. > Re-numbering has associated costs, which in the case we're pointing to here, > could've been saved had they deployed on ULA space instead. >
You don’t need an allocation. Get an assignment. Owen
