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<div>On Mar 28, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Brian Jones <<a href="mailto:bjones@vt.edu">bjones@vt.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite"><font><span class="gI">Maybe not so much <font>from the <font>
billing perspective, but from the <font>deployment perspective. Allocations of IPv6 addresses should be consistent with and a
<font>proponent of </font>a deploy<font><font>ment</font> methodology that allows
<font>for easy expansion of networks without additional allocations and associated costs.</font></font></font></font></font></span></font></blockquote>
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<div>Brian - </div>
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<div> Under the present fee schedule, the smallest ISPs pay $1250 per </div>
<div> year if they have IPv4 and $1687 per year if they have IPv6 (the</div>
<div> fee is set to the maximum of your IPv4 fee and IPv6 annual fee. </div>
<div> It is correct that the IPv6 allocation for these ISPs has been a /32.</div>
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<div> Under the revised fee schedule (as corrected), and with this policy</div>
<div> change, the smallest ISPs will be in XX-Small (if they only have</div>
<div> /22 IPv4 and /40 of IPv6) with $500 annual fee or X-Small (if they </div>
<div> have larger than /22 IPv4 and up to /36 of IPv6) with $1000/year fee.</div>
<div> </div>
<div> On the actual Pending Fee Table (corrected), it looks like this:</div>
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<table summary="ISP / Allocations Initial Registration or Annual Fees by service category" id="allocations" style="margin: 1.5em 0px 1em !important; padding: 0px; border: 2px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 598px; -webkit-box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 3px 3px 3px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 3px 3px 3px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
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<tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 100%, 50% 0%, from(rgb(240, 240, 240)), to(rgb(252, 252, 252))); background-color: rgb(237, 237, 237); ">
<th scope="col" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0.8em; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 12px !important; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0%, 50% 100%, from(rgb(136, 136, 136)), to(rgb(170, 170, 170))); background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: middle; ">
Service Category</th>
<th scope="col" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0.8em; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 12px !important; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0%, 50% 100%, from(rgb(136, 136, 136)), to(rgb(170, 170, 170))); background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: middle; ">
Initial Registration or Annual Fee<br>
(US Dollars)</th>
<th scope="col" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0.8em; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 12px !important; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0%, 50% 100%, from(rgb(136, 136, 136)), to(rgb(170, 170, 170))); background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: middle; ">
IPv4 Block Size</th>
<th scope="col" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0.8em; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); font-size: 12px !important; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 0%, 50% 100%, from(rgb(136, 136, 136)), to(rgb(170, 170, 170))); background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-align: left; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: middle; ">
IPv6 Block Size</th>
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<td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.8em; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); font-size: 11.5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: top !important; ">
XX-Small</td>
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$500</td>
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/22 or smaller</td>
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/40 or smaller</td>
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<td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.8em; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); font-size: 11.5px; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 100%, 50% 0%, from(rgb(240, 240, 240)), to(rgb(252, 252, 252))); text-align: left; vertical-align: top !important; ">
X-Small</td>
<td align="right" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0.8em; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); font-size: 11.5px; background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 50% 100%, 50% 0%, from(rgb(240, 240, 240)), to(rgb(252, 252, 252))); text-align: left; vertical-align: top !important; ">
$1,000</td>
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Larger than /22, up to and including /20</td>
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Larger than /40, up to and including /36</td>
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<div> If this policy change is _not_ adopted, then the ISP will only have the option</div>
<div> of receiving down to a /36, and IPv6 ISPs will always be in X-small category</div>
<div> with a $1000 annual fee or greater (i.e. any xx-small ISPs will automatically </div>
<div> become x-small upon receive an IPv6 /36 minimum allocation per present policy)</div>
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<div> If we don't want to have a disincentive for deployment of IPv6, we need to </div>
<div> have an minimum allocation for xx-small ISPs which does not move them</div>
<div> to x-small. As I noted to Owen, if we actually make /32 the minimum ISP</div>
<div> IPv6 allocation and not provide for differentiated pricing for smaller ISPs,</div>
<div> then we will end up having including the majority of ISPs in the category</div>
<div> and the fees will need be $1500 or more, even if we plan in significant cost </div>
<div> savings.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font> Allocating blocks that encourage /56 allocations <font>from their <font>block </font></font>may not be the optimal solution for many in the long run.</font></blockquote>
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<div> Any ISP that feels that way may obtain a /36, still be paying less than </div>
<div> today at $1000/year, and have significant room for /48 assignments. </div>
<div> Traditionally, this has been the type of decisions that each ISP makes</div>
<div> for themselves based on their market conditions and their perceived </div>
<div> customer needs, so providing the flexibility in policy for smaller IPv6</div>
<div> allocation makes sense unless the community feels it needs to decide</div>
<div> for those smaller ISPs on their behalf by not providing the policy option.</div>
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<div>FYI,</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
<div>President and CEO</div>
<div>ARIN</div>
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