questions about ARIN ipv6 allocation

Tue Dec 7 11:24:12 UTC 2021

On 6 Dec 2021, at 4:59 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
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> On 12/6/21 09:59, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
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>> The situation is such that the current economic incentives would be most advantageous to me to preserve my LRSA and abandon my RSA, which would involve simply turning off IPv6.
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> If ARIN's fee structure is such that it is financially advantageous for any class of network operators to turn off IPv6, they're doing it wrong IMHO.

Jay - 

The situation is exactly opposite, as ARIN’s fee schedule allows customers to obtain a corresponding-sized IPv6 block without any increase to their annual fee - this actually removes the financial disincentive that would otherwise be present for network operators to deploy IPv6.  

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers