Ha: [address-policy-wg] RE: an arithmetic lesson

Gert,

here's a hard one - if all new allocations in IPv6 are now going to be
/24s, don't you think that will affect the charging scheme since it
vastly increases the average amount of address space allocated,
therefore lowering the amount that would be charged for such a resource?


All of a sudden that large block is just an average size; while I don't
claim to understand all the intricacies of the charging scheme I will
claim that handing out a larger block isn't necessarily more work than
handing out a smaller one, and the way the charging scheme works is not
to maximize income, but to match the sum of expenses the NCC makes in
order to provide their services.

Not that I'm looking for an argument to increase the 'standard'
allocation size, but the charging scheme isn't a good argument against,
I think.

Remco
(There were also 2 million Class C blocks, that doesn't make it a good
idea to hand out IPv6 in a similar way. Party like it's 1993 stopped in
well, 1994.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at Space.Net] 
Sent: donderdag 3 december 2009 23:12
To: David Conrad
Cc: Remco van Mook; tme at multicasttech.com; DMenzulskiy at beeline.ru;
michael.dillon at bt.com; address-policy-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: Ha: [address-policy-wg] RE: an arithmetic lesson

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:33:17AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
> Allocating IPv6 /24 now when we have "plenty" of IPv6 address
> space because it makes a particular protocol proposal more convenient
> is, in my view, simply repeating history.  It is _the equivalent
> of_ allocating "class As".

The math *and* the economics disagree with you.  

IPv4 class A have been limited to 127 pieces, and they came for free.  

There's 2 million IPv6 /24s inside FP001, and they come with a yearly 
price tag, so "not everybody or their dog" are going to ask for one
(and, 
as I said, I know at least one LIR who is most definitely not going to 
ask for one - so not even every LIR that does deploy IPv6 wants a /24).

Gert Doering
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