-----Original Message----- From: Joe Greco [mailto:jgreco@ns.sol.net] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 4:14 PM To: John Payne Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
On Apr 8, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
IPv6-only content won't be meaningful for years yet, and IPv6-only eyeballs will necessarily be given ways to reach v4 for many years to come.
So again, why do WE have to encourage YOU to adopt IPv6? Why should WE care what you do to the point of creating new rules so YOU don't have to pay like everyone else?
Flip it around: Why should WE care about IPv6? WE would have to sign an onerous RSA with ARIN, giving up some of our rights in the process. WE have sufficient IP space to sit it out awhile; by doing that, WE save cash in a tight economy. WE are not so large that we spend four figures without batting an eyelash, so that's attractive. You don't. No one is going to make you set up IPv6. If you don't ever want or need to reach v6 enabled hosts, that's fine... Depending on your business, you may never need to change. But maybe someday you will want to, and you can set up v6 then. For a lot of folks, especially ISP's and content providers, there is much to be gained by deploying early: operational experience, and competitive advantage. It may not all go smoothly, so the sooner folks who know they will need IPv6, get started, the more time they have to work out any kinks. I think that is one of the interesting things about this problem. Unlike y2k, the deadline is different for everyone - and depends a lot on what your business is. Seriously? "an onerous RSA" What, specifically, do you consider so onerous? Are there no other situations where you willingly give up certain rights in order to obtain a service, or for the betterment or stability of your community/society? When you purchase internet transit, you surely sign a contract that has some terms of service, including an Acceptable Use Policy. You likely give up the right to spam, host copyrighted works, the right to intentionally disrupt networks, etc. It's likely that your provider can terminate services for violations. Do you consider this onerous? Even if you did, it didn't stop you from purchasing service. Further, anyone who is providing IPv6-only content has cut off most of the Internet, so basically no significant content is available on IPv6- only. That means there is no motivation for US to jump on the IPv6 bandwagon. Even more, anyone who is on an IPv6-only eyeball network is cut off from most of the content of the Internet; this means that ISP's will be having to provide IPv6-to-v4 services. Either they'll be good, or if customers complain, WE will be telling them how badly their ISP sucks. *I* am personally convinced that IPv6 is great, but on the other hand, I do not see so much value in v6 that I am prepared to compel the budgeting for ARIN v6 fees, especially since someone from ARIN just described all the ways in which they fritter away money. You can get IPv6 addresses from your upstream provider, often times free of charge, you don't ever have to deal with ARIN if you don't want to. You won't ever have to sign and agreement with ARIN if you don't want to. But, if you want to get a direct allocation, you got to pay to play - and also, agree to play by the same rules that everyone else is - it's a social contract of sorts- give up some rights in order to gain some benefits. As a result, the state of affairs simply retards the uptake and adoption of v6 among networks that would otherwise be agreeable to the idea; so, tell me, do you see that as being beneficial to the Internet community at large, or not? Note that I'm taking a strongly opposing stance for the sake of debate, the reality is a bit softer. Given a moderately good offer, we'd almost certainly adopt IPv6. "Moderately good offer" Like getting a prefix from your provider? Probably for free, without signing anything from ARIN. Have you talked to your provider? Or a certain well known tunnel broker will give you a /48 along w/ a free tunnel. http://nlayer.net/ipv6 route-views6.routeviews.org> sh bgp ipv6 2001:0590:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000/32 BGP routing table entry for 2001:590::/32 Paths: (15 available, best #6, table Default-IP-Routing-Table) Not advertised to any peer 33437 6939 4436 2001:4810::1 from 2001:4810::1 (66.117.34.140) Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external Last update: Thu Apr 8 20:43:30 2010 ... 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.