[ppml] Draft ARIN Recomendation

[Leo Bicknell]

In a message written on Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:01:08AM +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
> is one I can't use as a technical argument.
> ARIN is a "natural monopoly" service provider, and has been defined as a 
> quite restricted entity in order to make it trusted with that job.
> 
> Writing technical standards to protect a monopoly's revenue stream would be 
> what they call a "career-limiting move" for the IETF.....

You are correct, and perhaps I wasn't generic enough in my concerns.
As part of the ARIN AC the viability of ARIN is how I approach the
problem, let me put on an IETF hat and try from the other side.

IETF drafts have already created a system for allocating globally
unique IPv6 addresses where the existing RIR's are tasked with
allocating IPv6 address space in a manor quite similar to IPv4
space.

Given that this draft creates a new system for allocating globally
unique addresses this draft creates a system that competes against
the existing IETF sanctioned system.  This competition may cause
the first system not to be used at all, may create confusion about
which system users should use, or may allow one allocation system
to be used against the other (similar to "registry shopping" today
this would be "method of getting global addresses shopping").

To the extent the IETF has an interest in the existing allocation
system and all of it's features (working RIR's, allocations tracked
in whois servers, SWIP's and other suballocations tracked, etc)
this proposal puts those systems at risk.

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