[ga] Fw: (usagi-users 00963) Re: beginner in ipv6

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
To: <usagi-users@linux-ipv6.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 11:29 PM
Subject: (usagi-users 00963) Re: beginner in ipv6


> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 22:13:32 CST, Jim Fleming <jfleming@anet.com>  said:
> > > Yes, now that Redmond FINALLY supports it, we'll start seeing Windows
> > > users trying to use IPv6.
> > Are you saying that Windows users will not be successful in using IPv6 ?
>
> No, I'm saying they were guaranteed to not be successful in using IPv6
> before there was support for it.
>
> Just like most people didn't get cable TV till wire got pulled to their
> neighborhood, and most people didn't have seat belts in their cars
> until cars were made with seat belts.
>
> > How many IPv6 Linux users are there ?
>
> At the current time, certainly more than Microsoft IPv6 users.
>
> > Why would Linux users use a FREE operating system
> > and then pay $25,000 for IPv6 addresses ?
>
> I'm not sure where the $25K number came from, but let's speculate....
> Assuming you're talking about AIRN chargest for netblocks, the *initial*
> /35 of IPv6 space is only $2,500 - $20,000 is the fee for *additional*
> space.  Now mind you, a /35 is a *LOT* of space - on the order of
> 2,305,843,009,213,693,952 times the *entire* 32-bit IPv4 space.
>
> Reference: http://www.arin.net/regserv/feeschedule.html
>
> So... the first $2,500 gets you a *LOT* of space.  And ARIN won't let
> you get more until you start showing that your current allocation is
> starting to get full.
>
> The organizations that are paying $25K for address space are big enough
> that $25K is not a major issue (for comparison, price a single Juniper
> or high-end Cisco router - and consider that the $25K applies to the
> sort of network that has several *hundred* of those beasts).
>
> Now compute the price per address for a Linux IPv6 address -
> that's $2500/(2^^93) or approximately $0.000000000000000000000000252435
>
> You can assign several billion Linux IPv6 addresses before your pro-rated
> cost gets to be equal to the *FIRST* copy of Windows XP you bought.
>
> Now if you can get Windows XP for $100, why would anybody pay
> $100.000000000000000000000000252435 per address when they could
> get it $100 cheaper?
>
> /Valdis
>

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