On Apr 9, 2010, at 6:58 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote:
On 4/8/2010 7:18 PM, Gary E. Miller wrote:
Since I just need one /64 that is $1,250/yr for the /64.
That puts me at a large competitive disadvantage to the big boys.
According to the docs that I read that's 1250 for the first year and 100/yr thereafter. The big boys pay more up front, but pay $100.00 per year thereafter. There's the competitive disadvantage. AT&T, Comcast, Time-Warner pay $100.00/yr for huge address space while the little by pays $100.00/yr for a comparatively tiny one. Something's not quite right with that structure.
Cheers, Curtis
No. AT&T, Comcast, Time-Warner are not End-Users. They are ISPs. They pay ISP fees. I believe each of the ones you mention are in the "X-large" category, thus paying $18,000/year, not $100/year. An ISP which needs less than a /40 (which currently has no supporting allocation policy) would pay $1250/year. However, the nature of current IPv6 allocation policy is that an ISP would get a /32 and the minimum ISP IPv6 fee would, therefore, be $2,250/year. An end user pays $1,250 for anything smaller than a /40 (usually a /48) once, then, $100/year thereafter for ALL of their resources. Owen