6bone Prequalification for Sub-TLA assignment

[Seth David Schoen]

Joe Abley writes:

> On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:47:19PM -0500, Nathan Lane wrote:
> > A perspective from a Fortune 5 company with a large IP deployment:
> > 
> > I'm currently in the throes of whether or not to obtain a huge allocation of
> > ipv4 addresses at great cost (I already have 28 /16s [enough left for about a
> > year given no surprises] and a usage of about a million or two 1918 private
> > addresses) for a project that will take years to implement.  If I can go in and
> > say "we go ipv6, with a no/low cost address allocation big enough for our now
> > and future needs" I'll get support for that when faced with a $2.5mil ARIN
> > bill.
> 
> Eh?
> 
> APNIC will give me as many addresses as I can justify at no cost, as long
> as I am a member. Membership costs US$2000 per year.
> 
> Is ARIN so different?

Yes:

http://www.arin.net/feeschedule.html

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