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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
