[arin-discuss] IPv6 End User Assignments

[Steve Bertrand]

Jim wrote:
> Dear Michael,
> 
> I think most of the people are reading this discussion on ipv6.
> Yours reply was a disheartening but polite RTFM answer.
> 
> There are a lot of people that are not engineers on this listserv,
> and the emails that have been coming are finally something a non geek
> like me can understand. I have already put my engineers to work on
> reading the manual and implementing ipv6 in everyplace we can possibly
> do it, because of these emails. 
> 
> Please don't discourage the discussion.

I'm but a humble /21 & /32 holder who soaks in everything that can be
said about IPv6.

In no way do I want to take away from any discussion, nor am I on any
'side', but being an insignificant piece in this puzzle, I can't see how
it would hurt for me to say how I can see perhaps how one specific
response of Mr. Dillon's could have been a bit disruptive.

Perhaps it would be prudent for everyone to just take a breath, and
recall that we are all in this together.

I'm a relative 'newbie' in this game, but I do follow as closely as
possible. Mr. Dillon has *always* had decent and respectable feedback
toward IPv6, both in operational and business practises, and his
feedback should be taken with a little bit of weight, as should other
members who have a significant tally of quality posts.

Who gives a fsck about feelings. Someone needs to sort this out. We need:

- operational experience feedback
- political ideals feedback
- business case feedback

...whether it happens on one list or three, just provide something so we
get an RFC, and then can produce conclusive policy, mkay?

- /56 to every client, with the surrounding /48 reserved, in case that
becomes policy
- /64 from PE to CE for routability

...that is how this small ISP sees things.

Steve