> On Sep 15, 2022, at 21:09 , Rubens Kuhl <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 11:55 AM William Herrin <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 8:51 PM Rubens Kuhl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:56 AM William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Well, I'm one of the people who'd publish RPKI records for my /23 if I >>>> had the ability to do so and I definitely would NOT pay merit $595/yr >>>> (let alone $1k or $2k) to gain that ability. YMMV but I'm willing to >>>> bet there's not enough money out there to fund it with direct user >>>> fees and even if there was, the level of participation in the presence >>>> of more than trivial user fees would be too low to be worth the >>>> effort. >>> >>> Your /23 is worth only USD 30k, so you are definitely not in a >>> position to find that affordable. >>> It seems ARIN LRSA with the current fees and caps would be the best >>> option, and that option has a time limit. >> >> No, the best option for me right now is that I just don't participate >> in RPKI and the system has one less participant. And that's a shame. > > That's only true in the current environment where RPKI is only used to > invalidate bogus routes. When any reachability for RPKI-unknowns is > lost, that will change. But it will be too late then to join the > system, so you just sell it for USD 50k and start using NAT.
I think that the likelihood of that happening while IPv4 is still important is very near 0%. > Just a calculation: current LRSA fee is USD 150, cap is 25 USD per > year increase. 2X-Small is USD 500 per year, so it will take 14 years > to reach that level. Pick your poison, NAT or LRSA. Neither… I am pretty convinced that neither one will be necessary. Owen
