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        Roman"">ARIN has issued its an additional response to ACSP
        Suggestion 2015.12. The suggestion and response text are
        provided below. This suggestion remains closed and is available
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        Roman"">American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)</span><span
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          Suggestion: </span></b><span
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    Description: I suggest that ARIN adopt a similar policy to APNIC in
    which current holders of IPv4 are automatically eligible to receive
    IPv6 free of charge. Under Section 9.3.1. of the [APNIC-127] APNIC
    Internet Number Resource Policies, automatically qualify for IPv6
    delegation if they hold IPv4 but not IPv6. I suggest that the block
    received would be a /48 - these are in abundance with IPv6 being
    128bit. Value to Community: This would be extremely valuable to the
    community and would allow organisations who hold IPv4 to receive
    IPv6 without a long wait time.<span style="font-family:
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          New Roman";color:black">Responses:</span></b><span
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    10 August 2015<br>
    Thanks for your suggestion, numbered 2015.12 upon confirmed receipt,
    to make IPv4 resource holders automatically eligible to receive free
    IPv6 resources. This suggestion concerns Internet number resource
    policy, and would be better directed through the ARIN Policy
    Development Process. We recommend you post your proposal on the ARIN
    Public Policy Mailing List for comment prior to submitting a formal
    proposal. We do hope you will pursue putting this suggestion to the
    community to see if there is interest in moving it forward as a
    proposal.<br>
    Because your request is out of scope of the ARIN Consultation and
    Suggestion process (ACSP) this suggestion is now closed.<br>
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    12 August 2015<br>
    Following further review, we realized our response to your
    suggestion was incomplete.<br>
    Note that ARIN has already made some provisions in its fee schedule
    to encourage IPv6 adoption by providing that ISPs may receive
    approved IPv6 requests up to the organization's existing service
    category at no additional charge.<br>
    For example, a medium service category ISP holding a /17 IPv4 block
    can receive up to a /28 IPv6 block and will not incur any additional
    fees as its service category does not change as a result. For ISPs
    holding both ARIN-issued IPv4 and IPv6 allocations, the annual fee
    is based on the registration service category large enough to
    accommodate their IPv4 and IPv6 holdings.<br>
    For end users, issuance of a /48 IPv6 block (as you suggested) would
    be subject to an initial $500 registration fee and an annual
    maintenance fee of $100. Upon further review of your suggestion, it
    is apparent that you propose the elimination or waiver of these fees
    for end-users who also hold IPv4 resources. That suggestion will be
    provided to the ARIN Board Finance Committee for their
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