[6bone] proposal for transfer of 6bone address management responsibilities to RIRs

[Joao Luis Silva Damas]

At 9:27 +0200 23/8/02, Gert Doering wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 07:18:50PM -0400, John Fraizer wrote:
>>  >From the ARIN website:
>>
>>  "Organizations approved for receiving the standard /35 initial IPv6
>>  allocation will be charged an annual fee of $2,500 (US). For larger
>>  amounts of addresses, a fee of $20,000 (US) will be assessed.
>
>So go and tell ARIN that you don't like that.
>
>In RIPE land, this is not the case. You pay annual fees for all services
>altogether (which go up a bit if you have very much IPv4 space, which
>*does* create extra work) and - right now - no extra costs for IPv6.

True, and the membership fees are purely based on cost recovery for 
the services as the RIPE NCC is non-profit organisation. One of the 
things that troubles me in Bob proposal is the mention of "minimal 
cost", unless that means the usual membership fee of course.

Joao