> On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:09 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: > > > Was looking at the ARIN IP6 policy and cannot find any reference to those > > who have > > IP4 legacy space. > > > > Isn't there an automatic allocation for those of us who have legacy IP > > space. If not, is ARIN > > saying we have to pay them a fee to use IP6? Isn't this a disincentive for > > us to move up to IP6? > > > > Those with legacy IP4 space should have the equivalent IP6 space under the > > same terms. Or > > am I missing something? > > If you don't have a contract with ARIN, why should ARIN provide you with > anything?
Because a legacy holder doesn't care about ARIN; a legacy holder has usable space that cannot be reclaimed by ARIN and who is not paying anything to ARIN. The point here is that this situation does not encourage adoption of IPv6, where suddenly there'd be an annual fee and a contract for the space. "ARIN" is incidental, simply the RIR responsible in this case. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
