ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

Wed Apr 7 16:26:26 UTC 2010

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, John Palmer \(NANOG Acct\) 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.

Nope.

> If not, is ARIN saying we have to pay them a fee to use IP6?

Yep.

> Isn't this a disincentive for us to move up to IP6?

Yep.  Just went through this with one organization which I hadn't realized 
at the time was a legacy IPv4 holder.  The fees were a surprise (I thought 
they'd already been paying those fees).  Needless to say, their IPv6 plans 
are on hold indefinitely.

> Those with legacy IP4 space should have the equivalent IP6 space under 
> the same terms. Or am I missing something?

But they're not exactly the same terms.  ARIN 'terms' for the legacy 
holder probably didn't exist at the time of their IPv4 allocation.

Antonio Querubin
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