Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

> On Sep 10, 2021, at 01:39 , Jeroen Massar <jeroen () massar ch> wrote:
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> > On 20210909, at 21:55, Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
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> > > Awful lot of red spots even in the top 100.  Hell, even amazon.com
> > > isn't IPv6 yet.  And the long tail is going to be the death of a thousand
> > > cuts for the call center unless you have a way to deal with those sites.
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> > This is my point… That is why I think an announcement of “On X date,
> > we will begin charging extra for IPv4 services and define Internet Access
> > to be IPv6” by a couple of the larger eyeball ISPs would light a pretty
> > big fire under those laggards.
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> You mean like: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/others/ipv4-pricing/ ?
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> yes, a /24 was 0 setup, now now close to 5000 of currency.... and the monthly fee also doubled.
> Noting that 20 for an IPv4 IP is effectively quite cheap with current prices going towards 50+...
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> There are thus already a few places that are doing the squish....
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> Greets,
> Jeroen

Yes, but it needs to come from a major eyeball ISP to be the motivating
factor that we need here. A minor virtual server host isn’t going to do it.

Owen