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What if people start hoarding IPv6 addresses, too and the price of an IPv6 address rises?
by DeathArrow 3y ago
What if people start hoarding IPv6 addresses, too and the price of an IPv6 address rises?
- sgjohnson 3y agoCurrently IPv6 addresses cost exactly nothing. You can get them from your RIR. As many as you reasonably need.
- SAI_Peregrinus 3y agoThere are too many IPv6 addresses for hoarding them to be a problem any time in the next few hundred thousand years, at least with the current deployment strategies. Currently it's recommended for ISPs to hand out a /32 to every ISP that requests one, and a /48 to every ISP customer (though residential ISPs will often only hand out /64s). But only the 2000::/3 IPv6 space is available, the remaining 7/8ths is reserved in case that allocation strategy is too liberal.