<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>I myself, as the owner of an X-Small ISP, would enthusiastically welcome this. I'm not keen on the prospect of either losing the autonomy that having provider-independent IP address space provides, nor do I want to see my ARIN fees double if I go to a Small size category.</div><div><br></div><div>Many small ISPs who are, in contrast to ourselves, ambivalent towards the obvious need to transition to IPv6, might in fact, until this policy is implemented, avoid IPv6 altogether. Their reasoning may be along the lines of "Why should I pay twice as much money to get IPv6 addresses, when no one uses IPv6?" The chief barrier to IPv6 adoption is of course this mentality appearing in one place or another, and it manifests itself in a variety of forms, including residential ISPs unwilling (or unable to, on account of hardware shortcomings) to issue their subscribers IPv6 addresses; web hosting control panel software such as cPanel being reticent to support IPv6 in their products; network equipment vendors such as Juniper charging extra licensing fees for IPv6 support in their products, and so on. If we can eliminate just one of these barriers by removing the financial disincentive for X-Small ISPs to deploy IPv6, that would be a huge step towards furthering IPv6 adoption, the neccessity and benefits of which we are all aware.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>William Golden Wilkins </div>
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Subject: [arin-discuss] Fwd: ARIN Suggestion: Thank you<br>
From: Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>><br>
Date: Sun, January 30, 2011 7:25 am<br>
To: <a href="mailto:arin-discuss@arin.net">arin-discuss@arin.net</a><br>
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I have submitted the following suggestion to the ACSP.<div><br></div><div>Combined with policy proposal 121, this should provide relief to those who were concerned</div><div>about the fee discrepancy between IPv4 and IPv6 for very small ISPs.</div><div><br></div><div>I encourage members to make their opinions of this suggestion known on this list or to the members of the board.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left: blue 2px solid; margin-left: 8px; padding-left: 8px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Member Services <<a target="_blank" href="mailto:info@arin.net">info@arin.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">January 30, 2011 3:13:40 AM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a target="_blank" href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>ARIN Suggestion: Thank you</b><br></span></div><br><div><br>Thank you for confirming your suggestion with ARIN. Please reference Suggestion ID number 2011.3 in future correspondence to <a target="_blank" href="mailto:info@arin.net">info@arin.net</a> on this topic. We will contact you if we have any additional questions.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>Communications and Member Services<br>American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Suggestion received and confirmed:<br><br>I suggest that the board change the IPv6 subscriber member fee table so that the cutoff between x-small and small is made such that a small provider is in the range /37 to /32 and an x-small provider is /36 or less.<br><br>There is currently no policy language that would enable the creation of a /40 under the subscriber allocation policy and none is under consideration. There is consideration for /36s under proposal 121 which the AC has moved to draft policy.<br><br>By making this change, if policy 121 is adopted, subscribers currently in the x-small IPv4 category will have the option of obtaining allocations of /36 without an annual fee increase.<br><br>Several such providers have indicated on PPML and in other fora that the fee increase is serving as a barrier to their adopting IPv6. It is a failure of our stewardship responsibilities to ignore this community need.<br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>The ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process (ACSP) is available at:<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/index.html">http://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/index.html</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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