Re: Creating demand for IPv6

[Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>]

Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Thus spake "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog () dirtside com>
> > As far as I can tell, IPv6 is at least theoretically capable of
> > offering exactly two things that IPv4 does not offer and can't easily
> > be made to offer:
> >
> > 1. More addresses.
> > 2. Provider independent addresses
> >
> > At the customer level, #1 has been thoroughly mitigated by NAT,
> > eliminating demand. Indeed, the lack of IPv6 NAT creates a
> > negative demand: folks used to NAT don't want to give it up.
> >
> > This community (network operators) has refused to permit #2,
> > even to the extent that its present in IPv4, eliminating that source
> > of demand as well.
>
> If you feel ARIN has not solved the PIv6 issue sufficiently well, please 
> take that argument to PPML.  As of today, if you qualify for PIv4 space, 
> you qualify for PIv6 space automatically -- and you only have to pay the 
> fees for one of them.

Really? As far as I understood it, I still had to pay $500 for end-user 
allocations.

~Seth