ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

Wed Apr 7 23:20:01 UTC 2010

APNIC has a calculator for the fees for the space. you pay max(IPv4 space fee, IPv6 space fee). So basically you don't pay anything to dual stack your current network.

Also, if you are current standing member, they don't even ask you to justify IPv6, they give you a similar space to your current IPv4 space on simple request. If you need more then you need to justify.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Giagnocavo" <patrick at zill.net>
To: "Joe Greco" <jgreco at ns.sol.net>, "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
Sent: Thursday, 8 April, 2010 11:10:46 AM
Subject: Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

Joe Greco wrote:

> 
> 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

I have to agree ... why such high charges when a similar service like
GoDaddy provides (domain name registrar) is $15 a year?

Is it REALLY X times the level of difficulty of registering a domain
name, and thus the charges are justified?  I will let someone who is
very technical explain this to me.

Cordially

Patrick