Moving to IPv6

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Anton Verevkin <anton-P5WJPa9AKEc1GQ1Ptb7lUw at public.gmane.org>

| By the way does anyone know where I can buy a set of provider-independent 
| IPv6 addresses for myself and what is the approx. price for that?

I think that these are only issued when you can make a case that you
need them.

The problem, as I understand it, is that "they" don't want routing
tables to grow as badly as they would if there were too many PI
subnets.

The solution, implemented some time ago for IPv4, is what I call
feudalism.  Everybody gets IP addresses from "upstream", recursively.
The top of this hierarchy is IANA; the level below is ARIN, RIPE, etc.
There are hoops you have to jump through to be directly below this
level.

I would assume that IPv6 works the same way, but even more so because
of the legacy address assignments.
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