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

[occaid at ropeguru.com]

I will likewise be happy to donate a few $$ to help out. I am still
getting things straight here with all my systems and will be a week or
two longer before I am fully operational. But I am looking forward to
sharing my endeavors with the IPv6 community.

Just pass along the details to me and I will get something out to ya.

Robert Webb 

-----Original Message-----
From: occaid-bounces at cnacs.occaid.org
[mailto:occaid-bounces at cnacs.occaid.org] On Behalf Of James
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 6:42 PM
To: occaid at cnacs.occaid.org
Subject: [OCCAID] IPv6 TLA Renumbering Project: News & Update :)

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

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James Jun                                            TowardEX
Technologies, Inc.
Technical Lead                      Boston IPv4/IPv6 Web Hosting,
Colocation and
james at towardex.com            Network design/consulting & configuration
services
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