[members-discuss] GM topic

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 02:40:34PM +0000, Thibaud Perret wrote:
> Do you really need that many IPv6 addresses? Couldn't you just go with a single
> /40 allocation instead? That would still make a couple of /48 to be announced
> separately for you to keep your "lab allocation". If the answer is "yes" to that
> question, you could then pay well less in most if not all other RIR regions.

I observe problematic consequences of the fee structure in ARIN land here.

The whole idea behind IPv6 having a large address space is that you can be
very liberal with it, and give your customers /56s or /48s, because LIRs
can get reasonably huge allocations with no extra costs (I can do math,
and a /29 or even /24 per possible LIR is something that can fit into
the available space, with plenty of room to go).

The ARIN fee structure leads to LIRs going for a /36 instead, because it's
cheaper - and that, of course, has consequences of the end user offerings.

So whatever we go for, there should never be a financial incentive to reduce 
end user IPv6 assignment size for default-sized (non "extra large") LIR
allocations.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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