Re: IPv6 Unique Local Addresses

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> On Mar 2, 2018, at 10:38 PM, Matt Harris <matt () netfire net> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 12:33 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com <mailto:owen () delong com>> wrote:
> Sure… You have to maintain the tunnel or they may reassign/reallocate the address. Here’s the reality of that, 
> however:
>
> 1.    Unless you care about reaching the customer they reassigned it to from your network, you don’t care.
> 2.    Using it for ULA in addition to the tunnel isn’t really prohibited by that. It’s a gray area, I’ll admit.
> 3.    Sure, they can cancel the service at any time, but you get what you pay for. It saves you $100/year
>       while it lasts.
>
> Owen
>
> I'm not sure where you're getting the $100 figure from, ARIN's minimum fee for an allocation is $250/year (for a /40 
> or smaller block) on top of membership fees of $500/yr, so that's $750/yr to get a /48 from the North American RIR 
> (which is the only one I'm looking at today given that the context is the nanog list).  Additionally, tunnel 
> providers can and have shut down permanently at random - SixXS was among the largest providers, and they shut down 
> operations entirely last year.  So any folks using space from them had to renumber, either on to another tunnel 
> provider's space, or to ULA.  Re-numbering has associated costs, which in the case we're pointing to here, could've 
> been saved had they deployed on ULA space instead.  

You don’t need an allocation. Get an assignment.

Owen