[afrinic-discuss] afrinic discouraging ipv6 ??

[Quincy Prakash]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Gregory Massel wrote:

> > for who wants > /32 of IPv6, trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic
> > discouraging the isps in africa to get less than /32? why?
> 
> I would be pleasantly surprised if any ISP in the AfriNIC region has 
> requirement for > /32!
> 
> In fact, I only forsee a potential issue if an LIR is sub-allocating, but 
> even then it is quite likely that downstream ISPs will prefer to get their 
> own /48 rather than use a sub-allocation of /40 or similar.
> 
> The fee does seem quite high though in relation to other RIR's.
> 
> I also find that the fee for a /32 is extremely high given that one cannot 
> easily recover the cost of IPv6 as yet. I see that the initial and first 
> years fees are waived, however, would suggest that some sort of long-term 
> discount be effected until IPv6 is used more extensively for commercial 
> purposes and ISPs are generating revenue off IPv6 services to recover the 
> cost of addresses.

it seems afrinic then will not effectively manage our ip space if members 
do not want to support it in termms of administrative fees for allocated 
IPv6 addresses!

thanks.

> 
> --Greg 
> 
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