ARIN's IPv6 allocation policy

IPv8 and IPv16 place the persistent address in the right-most bits.
The site-id, based on IPv4, goes in the left-most bits.

It appears as though ARIN has decided to go with the IPv6 approach
of putting people's personal serial numbers in the right-most bits.

Jim Fleming
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp at hilander.com>
To: <v6wg at arin.net>; <arin-members at arin.net>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 11:17 PM
Subject: ARIN's IPv6 allocation policy


> The ARIN AC had a teleconference meeting on February 15th.  At that
meeting,
> we made the following recommendation to the board:
>
> Ron Roberts moved: The Advisory Council recommends to the Board of
Trustees
> that ARIN allocate IPv6 addresses according to the Internet Draft
> <draft-iesg-ipv6-addressing-recommendations-00.txt>. This recommendation
> will be regularly reviewed and modified subject to operational experience.
>
> Barbara Roseman seconded the motion.  There was no further discussion.
> A roll call vote was taken and the motion passed unanimously.
>
> Allow me to summarize the discussion that the AC had that led up to this
> recommendation:
>
> In the discussion at the meeting, the AC was certainly aware of the
> objections that have been raised to this policy.  However, the AC was
unable
> to reach a concensus on a different policy.  This is primarily due to the
> fact that there is very little operational experience to go on with
respect
> to IPv6.  Therefore, the AC decided to explicitly recommend that ARIN keep
> an active eye on the effects of this policy, and make appropriate changes
as
> operational experience dictates.
>
> Alec
>
> --
> Alec H. Peterson - ahp at hilander.com
> Staff Scientist
> CenterGate Research Group - http://www.centergate.com
> "Technology so advanced, even _we_ don't understand it!"
>