[arin-discuss] neophyte IPv6 inital allocation and fee question

[Charles O'Hern]

I just posted the following as a question in ARIN's online ticket
system, but am wondering if anyone here has any input on my question.
(paragraphing inserted for readability.)

Our organization, TCSN-1, is currently directly allocated from ARIN a
/21, NET-208-64-216-0-1, and a /22, NET-208-94-140-0-1, for at total
yearly fee of $1250.

With the understanding that when obtaining an IPv6 allocation only the
greater of the two fees is charged and for the purposes of implementing
IPv6 dual-stacked with our existing IPv4 allocation we'd like to get an
IPv6 allocation of equal or lesser cost than our current IPv4 allocation.

Looking at the fee schedule at
https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html we see that this would be
something in the range of a /44 - /48 allocation, which should be more
than sufficient for our needs for any foreseeable future.

However in the NRPM section 6.4.3. it states that the minimum allocation
is to be a /32.

Does this mean that we have to increase our annual fees in order to
obtain an IPv6 allocation far in excess of our needs?
If so, why is there a fee schedule for allocations smaller than /32?

-- 
Charles O'Hern
Network Operations
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