Re: IPv4 v IPv6
On Saturday 22 June 2019 22:49:36 John Hasler wrote:
> Gene writes:
> > Well, I'd expect there is a registration fee...
>
> From https://www.arin.net/resources/fees/fee_schedule/
>
> Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
>
> Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are allocated IP addresses for
> distribution to the users of their Internet services. The fee
> schedule continues to encourage IPv6 adoption by providing
> approved IPv6 requests up to the organization’s existing IPv4 service
> category at no additional charge.
>
> Thus an ISP that starts offering IPv6 incurs no additional fees.
>
> > ...particularly since it may take a whole cluster of servers to
> > cover locally, the whole ipv6 address space.
>
> I don't know what you mean by that. The number of servers does not
> depend on the size of the address space.
That doesn't compute John, unless a 30+ second dns lookup time would be
tolerable. That would have customers carrying pitchforks storming the
offices.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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