On 26 Apr 2024, at 17:00, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:

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.

… and possibly IPv6 costs could create incentives to not deploy IPv6 at all.

Can we stop discussing (and believing) that high costs for IPv4 would lead to enough IPv4 being returned to make everybody happy?

That will never be the case! There simply isn’t enough IPv4, so let’s stop riding that dead horse!

The only sustainable way to support future development is by having everything on IPv6.

You can complain about unfair distribution of IPv4 as long as you want, that’s now history that can't be changed.

With IPv6, however, those historic “mistakes" can be avoided (and are avoided).

Cheers

PS: “mistakes” in quotes because back then they were not considered mistakes. In hindsight, you can discuss...

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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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