Dennis,
I run my business out of my home and my DSL link is an important part of
my business. About six months ago my ISP started charging me a $20/mo. fee
for my /27 because "ARIN is now charging us." I am unhappy about this fee
but I understand its motivation -- conversation of IP space, though I
From the ARIN web site I found that the minimum allocation is a /20 and
the fee for that is $2,500/year (
http://www.arin.net/regserv/feeschedule.html ). Larger allocations have
higher charges but the price per address goes down quickly. I would think
that most ISP have larger allocations than a /20.
A /20 provides 128 /27 address blocks. That works out to $19.53/year per
/27. You said that your ISP is charging you $20. per month. Not a bad
markup! Interesting what happens when rationing starts.
Nonetheless, with IPv6, I naively hoped, until last night, the
conservation of space issues would go away, and thus the fees. Big duh!
The IPv6 address blocks allocated by ARIN are much much larger, so the
price per address for an ISP is considerably lower.
Bob