Re: RIPE our of IPv4

[Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 4:57 PM Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>
wrote:

> On 11/30/19 4:48 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> > See previous message about legacy IPv4 holders without budget for IPv6
> blocks
>
> How slim are your margins to have been around long enough to have a legacy
> IPv4 block but not be able to afford the ARIN fees to get a comparable/very
> usable (/48 to /52 for each IPv4) amount of IPv6?  And if you don't need a
> "comparable" amount of IPv6, presumably you aren't using all your legacy
> IPv4 and can sell off part of its presumably huge allocation to get some
> funds.
> --

Nonprofit that acts as an ISP with a budget of a few thousand a year,
smallest allocation to an ISP would be $500/yr in fees, a substantial
fraction of budget.

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