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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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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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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
consideration.<span style="font-family:Helvetica;
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