[arin-discuss] Good Stewardship by example, I'd like to RETURN a /20

[Lee Howard]

> Yes, I'm a cynic, but....  When I hear things like this I wonder, I truly wonder 
> what evidence there is that should enough addresses be recovered to put run-out 
> off for another year, that an awful lot of management teams won't immediately 
> refocus their efforts on projects with pay offs in the next quarter or two and 
> shift their entire ipv6 efforts out by a year or so?  

Purely my speculation:
I don't think it's likely that a significant amount of address space can be recovered
in the next three months.  Even if recovery efforts were very successful, ARIN 
would be receiving address blocks over the course of many months, as
organizations renumbered into subnets or smaller blocks.  We wouldn't be able
to say in August 2009 that IANA runout had been delayed by two years. . .
we would just slowly see the projections move farther out.  That's what I would
guess, anyway.

So, if your company has just begun its IPv6 transition efforts, and has just
realized that it'll take 3-5 years to be replace equipment that needs replacing,
an extra year might be very important.  You might want ARIN to raise your
fees to fund the staff hours and legal resources.  If you think you can be ready
in time (whatever you might mean by that), you might not want that.

In order to fulfill my duties as a Board member, I am asking the membership 
for guidance in setting the budget and fees.  For your reference, ARIN
Member Services maintains the web site, and publishes an annual budget and 
financial reports, About Us > Corporate Documents
https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs.html


> While I think the letter was a good thing, don't underestimate the number of 
> corporate officers who still don't comprehend and/or care what impact this will 
> have on them in the next couple of years.  It'll take a couple more letters and 
> a couple of WSJ front-page articles about company, or at least major initiative, 
> failures due to inability to get v4 addresses, before everyone gets that this is 
> something that they have to pay attention to.

Is there anything we (the ARIN community) can do to help?  Probably a better
topic for ARIN-PPML.

Lee