Creating demand for IPv6

Tue Oct 2 18:27:35 UTC 2007

Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> 
> Thus spake "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog at dirtside.com>
>> As far as I can tell, IPv6 is at least theoretically capable of
>> offering exactly two things that IPv4 does not offer and can't easily
>> be made to offer:
>>
>> 1. More addresses.
>> 2. Provider independent addresses
>>
>> At the customer level, #1 has been thoroughly mitigated by NAT,
>> eliminating demand. Indeed, the lack of IPv6 NAT creates a
>> negative demand: folks used to NAT don't want to give it up.
>>
>> This community (network operators) has refused to permit #2,
>> even to the extent that its present in IPv4, eliminating that source
>> of demand as well.
> 
> If you feel ARIN has not solved the PIv6 issue sufficiently well, please 
> take that argument to PPML.  As of today, if you qualify for PIv4 space, 
> you qualify for PIv6 space automatically -- and you only have to pay the 
> fees for one of them.
> 

Really? As far as I understood it, I still had to pay $500 for end-user 
allocations.

~Seth