[AusNOG] Should we be a LIR for our customers and get them PI (Was: another ipv6 Q)

Jeroen Massar jeroen at massar.ch
Thu Jul 3 16:54:25 EST 2014


On 2014-07-03 02:45, Tony wrote:
[..]
> "the network is statically addressed and of a size or complexity that
> make renumbering operationally impractical, together with evidence
> that dynamic or multiple addressing options are either not available
> from the relevant ISP or are unsuitable"

Simple answer to $RIR for these kind of requests:
 - client requires to never renumber due to complexity of network.
 - client requires independent connectivity.

This case can easily be made for most businesses.
(not so easily for a 2 person company though ;)

> So the solution is that any business that thinks they might be
> uncomfortable renumbering IPv6 should apply for a PI /48 ? As previously
> mentioned on this thread the costs seems to be in the order of $1200 PA.

Not if you have an LIR (eg SAGE-AU or any other LIR) that covers the
base fee, and then requests the PI space on their behalf.

For the LIR it is just an extra prefix, thus just a bit more cash. See
the various calculators mentioned in the parent thread.

> Should we be encouraging our business customers that meet this criteria
> (multiple sites, few hundred devices) to get IPv6 space from APNIC and
> then advertise it for them (for global connectivity) ?

Yes. And you as the upstream can act as the LIR.

Note that your customer might chose to use different/additional
upstreams to actually serve their traffic once they have their PI
prefix. They can also move their PI prefix to another LIR etc.

Greets,
 Jeroen



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