[OCCAID] IPv6 TLA Renumbering Project: News & Update :)

[Tristan Santore]

James wrote:

>Hello,
>
>OCCAID has been successful in its IPv6 development with assistance from our
>members and sponsors, as well as the 6BONE project (http://www.6bone.net).
>
>As many of you are aware, OCCAID is running its services based out of 3ffe
>6BONE ipv6 addressing space. As required by the RFC3701, 6BONE must be
>phased out and all 3ffe addressing space must be shutdown and returned by
>2006 June 6th.
>
>One of the items on the OCCAID's 2005 agenda is to obtain a RIR (2001:) 
>production IPv6 space and start migrating users off of the 3ffe space. The
>plan is to eventually cease advertisement of 3ffe:401d::/32 prefix as early
>as by end of this year. 
>
>However, because OCCAID is a completely non-funded non-profit project, thus
>far all of its operating expense was placed as burden on our sponsors and
>TowardEX to run the network. We have repetitively reviewed options of
>charging our users for membership status (i.e. yearly fee of $100 per 
>individual, etc) to recover for the cost of network operations related to
>OCCAID project -- but we decided against it in the past; as we felt that it is
>premature for a non-wellknown project to start charging for membership, and
>plus myself and others operating the project are currently too busy to deal
>with incorporating OCCAID as a 501c3 non-profit corporation; although 
>incorporating OCCAID is one of our items in this year's agenda, hopefully.
>
>Anyways, we are happy to announce that ARIN has approved for allocation of a
>production IPv6 TLA for OCCAID. However, in order for this prefix to be
>allocated, an administrative charge of $500 USD must be paid. While $500 is
>not a big amount, we feel that there is no need for us to pay this whole
>amount out of our own, when OCCAID itself doesn't even generate any revenue
>to cover for its own expenses at this time -- especially when this address
>space is exclusively being used by occaid, not by any one of us in personal
>nor in for-profit manner.
>
>So, we ask the OCCAID members who currently possess a /48 out of 
>3ffe:401d::/32 allocation to contribute anywhere between $20 to $100 US.
>Once $500 is reached, we'll send that out to ARIN and get the production
>addressing space for OCCAID. We are not requiring members to pay for this,
>but we are asking you to help, just as we did for you.
>
>To submit contributions, please email me off-list for payment details.
>
>Thanks,
>-J
>
>  
>
Hi,
Im happy to donate 20 usd as soon as i get my money on the 10th. I 
havent used ipv6 much as yet, but this is the future of IP so Im glad 
that all of us can use OCCAID for testing.
If you could email me details on how to pay James. That would be great. 
Keep up the good work.

Kind regards,
Tristan