Immo, On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Immo 'FaUl' Wehrenberg <immo.ripe@be.free.de> wrote:
IPv6 PI (PIv6) is nearly useless, by design: Only customer-less end-users can use PIv6 space today without stepping into a grey zone in the policy documents. I.e., these end-users can't have customers.
I'm surprised that I had not realized that myself. IPv6-hosting ::= (bring-your-own-PIv6-prefix, @ 50EUR/year+registry fees | buy from a LIR) At 65536 /48s in a /32, that's a big source of revenue for RIPE right there. :) Current break-even seems to be around 50 customers (for when it's cheaper to be LIR). Which in other words means 50:1 prefixes in DFZ, before break-even. And I'm betting there's a significant long-tail of hosting providers who have less than 50 customers. Oh the joy of DFZ :) Regards, Martin