Re: For whom is IPv6? [was: Happy St Nicholas Day: Re-Launching the IPv6 ULA registry]

[Nico Schottelius <[e-mail]>]

Fred Baker <[e-mail]> writes:

> What is your budget, personally, for IANA services? Yes, there needs to be money, but my understanding is as a permanent ULA registry would be nothing more than “a registry”, of which they operate hundreds.

I think defining a possible "budget" with maybe "sponsoring" in the mind
is a good idea.

The ULA registry that we provide was created in 3 days of work, because
it could be based on the existing open source project ubookmark[0] that
we already use for https://ipv6.blog.

Creating a whois and reverse DNS service are probably something like 3+3
additional days of work. Support requests (if the registry was
authoritative) take around 5-15m, depending on the depth / amount of
questions. Assuming that you including hosting costs (less than 50
USD/month on our infra), we can try to get an estimate on the budget,
based on an hourly rate of 120$. Let's further assume that you'll need
to give support for every 64 prefixes that are allocated.

- 2*(3+3) (times two to avoid underestimate) = 12h inital work = 1440 USD
- 2*50 USD (times two for stuff that comes up)  = 100 USD/month
- 10m average/support request

Thus as a rough estimate of the costs of the registry wil be around:

     ~ 2'000 USD initial investment
     - 384 (64*6) prefixes: ~ 220 USD/month
     - 7680 (64*20) prefixes: ~7680 USD/month

With this model we could even ask sponsors to sponsor a certain amount
of prefixes (i.e. company x sponsors 384 prefixes for the registry).

I assume that the RIRs have already even more statistics to reason about
how much support is actually coming in and we could take that as a basis
to refine the model.

Best regards,

Nico


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