[arin-discuss] Legacy RSA

[John Curran]

At 3:40 AM -0400 10/31/07, Dean Anderson wrote:
>There was virtually no one at VON (Voice on the Net) who had anything
>whatsoever to do with anything related to ARIN or IP Address
>Registration.  I attended with a couple of clients who perform carrier
>services. My client who was with me, was bored to tears and showed up 10
>minutes later with the other person, when they finished with the block
>of booths where ARIN was. This gave me a chance to talk with Einar and
>Jon, which was pleasant. But when my clients showed up, one asked (he
>was joking) what ARIN had to do with telephony systems.  ARIN obviously
>had nothing to do with telephony, which put the whole boondoggle into
>focus.  The people who come to VON, come to see and/or buy VOIP products
>and services. This has nothing to do with ARIN.

Dean -
 
   There's a lot of applications which utilize IP addresses that aren't
   necessarily broadly affected by the upcoming IPv4 depletion and
   transition to IPv6.  Examples of these include things like medical
   applications, manufacturing equipment, etc...  While they use IP
   technology, and may or may not move to IPv6, it's not required
   that they do so if their operating model is disconnected islands.

   There are several dozen ISP's and hosted service providers at VON
   (and countless vendors building VoIP equipment for them) which
   need to be aware of the upcoming change in availability of IPv4
   address space from ARIN.   These needs to occur with enough
   time that they can engage in adequate product and service
   planning activities, as there real business implications of the
   free pool depletion and IPv6 introduction for such folks.

   The ARIN community asked us at multiple meetings to engage
   in more outreach regarding IPv6, and we are doing so.  This
   includes having ARIN at various ISP, web hosting, and Internet
   events.  From your email, I believe that you feel this is not a
   worthwhile use of ARIN resources, and I appreciate that your  
   raising a concern on this list.   To the extent that others feel
   the same way, I encourage them to speak up here or at the
   public meetings, since our guidance to date as clear been just
   the opposite.

Thanks!
/John