Re: questions about ARIN ipv6 allocation

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On 6 Dec 2021, at 4:59 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay () west net> wrote:
> On 12/6/21 09:59, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
>
> > The situation is such that the current economic incentives would be most advantageous to me to preserve my LRSA and 
> > abandon my RSA, which would involve simply turning off IPv6.
>
> If ARIN's fee structure is such that it is financially advantageous for any class of network operators to turn off 
> IPv6, they're doing it wrong IMHO.

Jay - 

The situation is exactly opposite, as ARIN’s fee schedule allows customers to obtain a corresponding-sized IPv6 block 
without any increase to their annual fee - this actually removes the financial disincentive that would otherwise be 
present for network operators to deploy IPv6.  

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers