Re:India is leading IPv6 migration with 61.67% adoption
by ipv6_or_nat on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:33AM
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Well, yeah, if you start by quoting a message explicitly making statements about ISPs and then opining on that, why act surprised that others think you are talking about ISPs?
As to the RIR fee thing, yeah, you are right about the ARIN thing. It differs by RIR and region, tho.
You are wrong about the allocation thing, tho. You can get new IPv4 allocations, even in ARINland, by joining the waitlist or to support a IPv6 deployment.
Still, while we're here:
> This is just silly. If you are an ISP then you already have an IPv4 allocation.
Due to exhaustion in fact you can't get new allocations in IPv4 in most of the developed world. If you want to expand, you're going to need to buy addresses on the open market for that sort of $40 price we talked about.
> ... Once you have your allocation, RIR fees are the same regardless of IPv4 or IPv6 allocations.
Nope. Let's take ARIN, suppose you're a large international company, hundreds of local corporate networks. With IPv4 this is quite a struggle, maybe you can get away with a /17 for which ARIN will charge you $4000 per year.
But with IPv6 this is easy, you'll qualify for their "3X-small" category with a /40 at only $250 per year, even if you choose a relatively wasteful address layout.
It gets worse! Unless you already had that /17 from years ago, chances are you had to cobble the addresses together from several distinct allocations. ARIN charges $150 per block aggregated in this way, if you need a dozen blocks that's $1800 extra because of the fragmentation. In contrast IPv6 isn't fragmented, it was deliberately allocated sparsely so it's easy to give you adjacent blocks to grow. Not that they'll need to when you're just an international company with a few hundred sub-networks, IPv6 is so wide.