[address-policy-wg] getting second IPv6 PA as a LIR

Hi Marcin,

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Marcin Kuczera <marcin at leon.pl> wrote:
>> These /48s can be (sub-)allocated to customers (please forgive my
>> flawed internet-numbers-delegation-vocabulary), who are free to
>> announce them over BGP sessions.
>
> Indeed, however there is one "little" issue.
> /32 is already advertised @AS13000 as whole.
>
> So there are 2 possibilities:
> - add paralel route objects, but then MNT-LOWER must be added and all
> related inter-ISP communiaction problems.
> - not adverising /32 @ AS13000, adverising only prefixes in use.

3: - at 50 EUR/year/customer, retrieve 1 PIv6 prefix, per customer.


>> Presumably, the more ISPs that sign up for this Internet tax (the LIR
>> membership fees), the lower it will become (#LIRs is most definitely
>> sub-linearly proportional to the RIPE NCC:s operational costs).  It is
>> fairly obvious to me that this attempt to (at least partially) solve a
>> *perceived* network model problem with taxes is not long-term stable
>> in itself.*
>
> You can't use this argument for people who earn around 500-1000 euro per
> month with their business...
> Post comunistic block is much different than old EU, and most people from
> old EU do not realize that...

To which I wonder, how painful is 50 EUR/year per business
("additional fees may apply"), to bring its own prefix to someone
else's hosting/network infrastructure?

Regards,
Martin