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...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard, Ingo Lalla, Karin Schuler Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279