quietly....

Thu Feb 3 16:12:55 UTC 2011

On Feb 3, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Jack Bates wrote:

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> On 2/2/2011 8:38 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:
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>>> From the main section on https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html:
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>> "...  ISPs with both IPv4 resources and IPv6 resources pay the larger of the two fees."
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>> It is not mentioned anywhere in the waiver stuff.
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> The concept of v4 to v6 addressing scale doesn't match the pricing scale, though. Generally, I expect to see most ISPs find themselves 1 rank higher in the v6 model compared to v4, which effectively doubles your price anyways. :)
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> Jack

Actually, so far, most ISPs are finding themselves one rank lower.

The exception is particularly small providers and there is a combination of suggestion (about fees) and policy (Proposal 121) effort underway to rectify that problem.

Owen