[members-discuss] [Ticket#2012072401002498] Probably Free /8 networks in RIPE region
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Sven Olaf Kamphuis
sven at cb3rob.net
Fri Jul 27 12:34:32 CEST 2012
and yes, by all means, go to your cfo and tell him he is running your company into the wall... preferably at a shareholder meeting :P not having working ipv6 in 2012 is just utter incompetence. On Fri, 27 Jul 2012, LeaderTelecom Ltd. wrote: > Dear Erik, > > > I spoke with someone from Surfnet a while ago (they also have a /8 and a > whole block of 16 bit ASN >> pre-RIPE) and on they question if they would return space to RIPE, their > answer was : > > <quote>Why prolong the inevitable, we have been doing v6 for 15 years > already. Everyone should do >> the same ...</end quote> >> That reasoning is very true and I do agree with it. > > Yes, from technical point of view it is excelent answer and probably ideal way > for internet. But when you goes to CFO and tell that you need new equipment - > he will ask reason why you need additional investments? All works well. You > can tell stories about IPv4 and IPv6... But from finance point of view it > doesn't make any sense. Run IPv6 and what next? It will give you new > customers? Or current cusomers will pay mode money? NOOOO! It is just extra > expenses. It time when each company try to cut costs impossible to invest > money in word "IPv6". But! If cost IPv4 will grow - then it will be very > simple for companies to understund that chaeper will be migrate to IPv6. >  > > That is also why a charging scheme based on v4 is short lived and > out-dated by the time it comes >> into action. The first RIPE invoice based on it, will be when the resource > pool is already in the final /8. >> And that pool won't magically grow back above it ... > > A charging scheme based on budget / nr of members is my prediction where > things should go for the >> above mentioned reasons, why based it on a resource or charge for a resource > that is gone ... To have >> this discussion again in one or two years ? Please spare me ... > > But RIPE must support servers, software and etc which support IPv4. And all > this expenses must pay LIRs? When IPv4 will finished and new LIRs will get > only IPv6 - why they must pay a huge money for support IPv4 when they will > provide only IPv6? >  > -- > Alexey Ivanov > LeaderTelecom Ltd. >
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