Tim, >> Michel Py wrote: >> - If globally unique IPv6 address space is free, I am willing >> to give these $2.5k/yr to my ISP to announce my /48.
> Tim Chown wrote: > Well, the ISP announces it, but how far does it get? It gets to you, where you filter it but it does get to you. You filter it and here's why: as a NREN, your "customers" don't come to you and say "you have 2 solutions: 1. you keep my business and here's extra cash to "forget" to filter prefixes; 2. someone else will be happy to have both my business and the extra cash. So you do have the luxury to do things the right way, which we thank you for. However, for for-profit ISPs that do not have the taxpayer's money to create a network, the choice is not as easy and will be choosing between a) do things right and don't capture the emerging IPv6 market and b) look the other way and get extra cash much needed to finance building the IPv6 infrastructure. There is a critical mass factor in this. Sure, if it's only one guy trying to get his prefix announced, it goes nowhere. Trouble is that announcing prefixes, although it does create problems in the long run, solves so many issues in the short term that every enterprise is going to do it. Michel. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
