[afrinic-discuss] Re: afrinic discouraging ipv6 ??

[Quincy Prakash]

On Tue, 17 May 2005, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:06:48PM +0300,
>  Quincy Prakash <quincy at translink.co.ug> wrote 
>  a message of 14 lines which said:
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> > for who wants > /32 of IPv6,
>                 ^
>                 Yes, strictly superior to /32. 
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> > trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic discouraging the isps in
> > africa to get less than /32? why?
> 
> Be realistic. Give me one operator in Africa for which a /32 is not
> currently more than enough.

in reality, yes the /32 has enough IP addresses even for a continent, but 
the fee for requiring more looks unrealistic. i would like to know why it 
costs 6 times more!

> I'm more concerned about the 2,500 US $ (a huge amount) for the
> /32. It will certainly discourage people to start deploying IPv6,
> since there is currently no real market demand.

for me this is fine because i think an ISP already having IPv4 addresses 
doesn not have tpo pay any extra to get IPv6 addresses. (unless i am not 
undrstanding it well)

thanks.

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