[address-policy-wg] getting second IPv6 PA as a LIR

Immo,

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Immo 'FaUl' Wehrenberg
<immo.ripe at 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