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Suggestion 2011.34 The suggestion and response text are provided
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Suggestion: </span></b><span
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As a small ISP, we have been working to get our customers involved
in IPv6 for years now. Our IPv4 allocation is XSmall, and until this
year, our IPv6 allocation has cost us nothing above our IPv4
allocation.<br>
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As I'm sure you are aware, the new system that is now in place is
phasing in IPv6 pricing over the next few years, with the price
being the larger of the allocations that the organization has.<br>
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Unfortunately, this has exposed a problem for very small ISPs which
have been moving customers to IPv6, in that we are now faced with
the choice of either dropping our IPv6 allocation, or paying for a
Small allocation, without the need or availability of the extra V4
addresses.<br>
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This is basically a tax on smaller ISPs (not borne by any other
class of ISP, since they all can get V6 allocations commensurate
with their V4 allocations, thus removing the extra fee), during an
economic climate that is already making things difficult for smaller
organizations.<br>
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We believe that this practice creates an undo hardship for the
smallest of the ISPs in our community, and will increase pressure to
drop IPv6 support due to the nearly doubling of ARIN fees.<br>
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Considering the much larger pool of IPv6 small blocks vs the size of
the pool of IPv4 XSmall blocks, this seems capricious. Clearly,
making it more expensive for small ISPs to provide IPv6 support runs
counter to ARINs goals of increasing IPv6 adoption.<br>
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We propose that ARIN explicitly allow ISPs who are only using XSmall
allocations in IPv4 to continue to bring the benefits of IPv6 to
their customers by allowing those organizations to be eligible for
Small IPv6 allocations at no extra cost. This should discourage
small ISPs from removing IPv6 support as a cost cutting measure or
being the only class of ISPs that have to pay EXTRA for IPv6
support.<span style="font-family:
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This is in response to your suggestion noted below and assigned
number 2011.34 upon receipt of your confirmation.<br>
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The ARIN Board of Trustees recently adopted a new fee schedule,
effective 1 July 2013.<br>
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The adopted fee schedule is the result of many considerations,
including input from multiple fee schedule consultations and
suggestions such as this one.<br>
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As a result of the new fee schedule being announced, this suggestion
is now closed.<span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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