[ARIN-consult] discounting registration fees for IPv6 assignments

[Jesse D. Geddis]

Bill,

I was motivated by it and even ended up moving primarily to IPv6 over v4. However, with the proposed policy my fees will be $2k based on my default /32 allocation instead of my v4 allocation which would be $1k. Price was almost the sole factor for me to use v6 because I could not 'even now' have monetized the increased fees for a v6 block. The other factor was simply an engineering curiosity one.

Jesse Geddis
LA Broadband LLC
JNCIS-SEC, JNCIS-ENT
JNCIA-SSL, JNCIA-JUNOS

On Oct 28, 2012, at 12:33 PM, "Bill Woodcock" <woody at pch.net> wrote:

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> On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Jo Rhett <jrhett at netconsonance.com> wrote:
>> I'd like to state for the record that I would officially support a policy proposal that offered a discount period for IPv6 registrations in order to increase uptake.
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> …except that we tried that experiment for, what, eight or ten years?  So if people weren't motivated by the discount-all-the-way-to-free, nor by the phasing-out of the discount over several years, do you really think they'd be motivated by it being discounted _again_, when they weren't the first time?
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> Essentially, I'm tired of special corner cases that are created to satisfy theoretical demands that might or might not exist on the part of hypothetical third parties.  Our policies are lousy with such loopholes, and our pricing was as well.  This pricing doesn't entirely fix the problem, but it certainly makes a good step in the right direction.
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> It doesn't fix the ridiculously-large volume discounts, but it makes a step in the right direction.
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> It doesn't get rid of the ISP/end-user distinction, but it makes a step in the right direction.
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>                                -Bill
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