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

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:28:44PM +0100, Tim Chown wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:22:58PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > While this is a nice idea - from the global *routing* perspective, you do
> > certainly *NOT* want "everybody and their friends" to be able to get 
> > their own globally visible address block.
> > 
> > Right now, it's important to push IPv6, but in the long run, I *want*
> > restrictions on "who can get IPv6 blocks from the RIR".
> 
> I think this is true.  Another question is what the smaller ISPs and end
> usrs end up paying, at the bottom of the food chain.   At present a static 
> IPv4 address for DSL can be of the order of 15 Euros, for those who don't 
> want to use DDNS.   What price a static IPv6 /48 prefix to the home?

At least over here, the pricing for static IPv4 addresses does *not* come
from "the small ISP has to pay the price to the larger ISP" (our customers
are *not* billed by the number of IP addresses, and I know that other
LIRs do it the same way).

The extra price comes from distinguishing "ultra-low commodity products"
and "product that requires some customer-specific configuration" - the
latter should be less effort for IPv6...

Gert Doering
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