(original author here)

Note that ARIN NRPM 4.10 now requires the requested range to be used exclusively for IPv6 transition and not anything else.

As for full table, several providers I recommended in the original post are able to do a full table for less than $10/month. You can also join an IX and ask nicely for transit from other members. Some may even offer you free transit the moment you join.

4.10 still allows dual stacking core services like DNS but it is intended for NAT64 type deployment for other things (which I'm a fan of anyways! I'd encourage anyone to look into it while waiting for a different assignment, it's really quite good)... that said they are never going to be able to tell if your usage is from NAT64 or raw clients, not that I would condone lying in your application.

Thanks, I'll poke around a few and see which looks best! A bit more than Vultr but well worth it for a full table.

If you happen to have a pop in Sweden then there is an IX with free ports up to 100GE. https://sonix.network

Just Dual-stack dns by itself is sufficient justification as long as you already have IPv6. They dont care what else you do with it as long as its still also used for the "transition purpose" I'm not speaking for ARIN but I've been requesting and managing resourses from them for over 20 years, including a 4.10 allocation for side projects earlier this year.

Anything dual stack (dns, http, smtp etc.) is considered transitional. The only reason they say "exclusively" is so you technically have to give it back once its no longer used for that purpose. This is distinct from IPv4 blocks from the open market or the waiting list that you can sit on or sell if you no longer need them.

For most non-4.10 allocations only your original request needs to have been in good faith, after that utilization only factors into new resource requests.

For 4.10 the community wanted more restrictions to maximize availability for new networks.

Out of curiosity, what do you want full tables for?

To be honest 90% "it's fun to mess with". I had written my own looking glass type software with some historical statistics. I'm sure you could get similar data elsewhere but it was more about hooking into the route daemon updates and seeing general things or even watching what I was doing on other networks propagate live.

10% is having my own looking glass was significantly faster and easier for me to use. But I probably wouldn't have done it all just for that, it was just fun to mess with.

It's useful if you multi home.

Its not necessary for multihoming. I am el-cheapo multihomed using Linux router. I use policy routing with 2 default routes (primary and secondary) and everything works like a charm. I could even try to do some ECMP but I care more about stability of ping/jitter that raw bandwidth. And you dont need to bother to ask ISP for BGP or static IPs. You just take whatever you have and slap it together.

Yes, which is why I said useful. With a full table from two ISPs you know which ISP have a shorter path to a CIDR. It's also likely the same path where traffic also comes in from that CIDR.

There are a number of exceedingly niche one-man-show hosts on sites like lowendtalk that will peer and provide full tables for a couple dollars a month.

try bgp.services