questions about ARIN ipv6 allocation

Tue Dec 7 16:46:27 UTC 2021

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> On Dec 7, 2021, at 11:34, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 3:25 AM John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
>> On 6 Dec 2021, at 4:59 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay at west.net> wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> The situation is exactly opposite
> 
> And yet you have people reporting that ARIN's fee schedule offers
> dissuasion for their deployments of IPv6. Right here in this email
> thread. How can that be?
> 
> Don't gaslight us John. Seriously, it's not cool. ARIN fees make IPv6
> registration a neutral prospect for only a fraction of its
> registrants. You've presented something as broadly true that isn't.
> Those of us for whom your claim is false don't appreciate the
> insinuation that we've misrepresented ARIN's behavior.
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
> 
> --
> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/

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