From: Seth Mattinen (no email)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - 14:27:35 EDT
Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>
> Thus spake "William Herrin" <>
>> As far as I can tell, IPv6 is at least theoretically capable of
>> offering exactly two things that IPv4 does not offer and can't easily
>> be made to offer:
>>
>> 1. More addresses.
>> 2. Provider independent addresses
>>
>> At the customer level, #1 has been thoroughly mitigated by NAT,
>> eliminating demand. Indeed, the lack of IPv6 NAT creates a
>> negative demand: folks used to NAT don't want to give it up.
>>
>> This community (network operators) has refused to permit #2,
>> even to the extent that its present in IPv4, eliminating that source
>> of demand as well.
>
> If you feel ARIN has not solved the PIv6 issue sufficiently well, please
> take that argument to PPML. As of today, if you qualify for PIv4 space,
> you qualify for PIv6 space automatically -- and you only have to pay the
> fees for one of them.
>
Really? As far as I understood it, I still had to pay $500 for end-user
allocations.
~Seth
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