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Re: It's Ars Tech's turn to bang the IPv4 exhaustion drum

  • From: Charles Wyble
  • Date: Fri Aug 22 17:45:32 2008
Matthew Kaufman wrote:
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080817-were-running-out-of-ipv4-addresses-time-for-ipv6-really.html



This article reminded me that I really needed to stop relying on a tunnel over my backup DSL line for IPv6 and spend the time to get my own ISP on the road to deploying IPv6.

Step 1: Request address space from ARIN

Took <1 day to get a reply that we'd be getting the space that day, a few more hours to receive a /32. That was easy.

Did you have existing IPv4 space with ARIN? If so, I have to wonder if I would get the same speedy service from ARIN as a new entrant without existing ipv4 space? :)

I'm looking at building a large network with Ipv6 in the Los Angeles metro area, to serve a number of small businesses via a large scale wireless network. Essentially a large scale private WAN, with globally routable addresses (for a VoIP/IPTV roll out later) So I'm not exactly a traditional ISP or colocation customer, but share characteristics with them. Does this matter? Should I just submit my request and see what happens?


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