[ppml] Proposed Policy: Proposal to amend ARIN IPv6 assignment and utilisation requirement

[Rich Emmings]

Opposed.

Does this proposal help with a short term problem, or promote the adoption of IPv6?

No.

If utilization becomes a problem, space yet to be allocated outside of 
2000::/3 can be allocated in smaller blocks in the future, and still leave 
enough.  Done this way, justifications for the proposal in reference to 
early adopters vs latecomers are mitigated.

Large scale introduction of /56 addresses may also increase the global 
routing table size.

End site assignment of a /48 is a recommendation and nothing prohibits the 
assignment of a /56 downstream where appropriate.

The advocacy for the number of average end-site nets can probably be argued 
down to the next nibble or bits forever.

Changes slow implementation.  That some of these changes are necessary 
doesn't alter the impact.

At this time, this is an unnecessary change, so let's skip it and move on to 
implementation issues.




On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Member Services wrote:

> ARIN received the following proposed policy. In accordance with the ARIN
> Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process, the proposal is being
> posted to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List and being placed on ARIN's
> website.
>
> The ARIN Advisory Council (AC) will review the proposal and within ten
> working days may decide to:
> 1)  Support the proposal as is,
> 2)  Work with the author to clarify, divide or combine one or more
> policy proposals, or
> 3)  Not support the policy proposal.
>
> If the AC supports the proposal or reaches an agreement to work with the
> author, then the proposal will be posted as a formal policy proposal to
> the Public Policy Mailing List and it will be presented at the Public
> Policy Meeting. If the AC does not support the proposal, then the author
> may elect to use the petition process to advance the proposal. If the
> author elects not to petition or the petition fails, then the proposed
> policy will be considered closed.
>
> The ARIN Internet Resource Policy Evaluation Process can be found at:
> http://www.arin.net/policy/irpep.html
>
> Mailing list subscription information can be found at:
> http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Member Services
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>
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>
> Policy Proposal Name: Proposal to amend ARIN IPv6 assignment and
> utilisation requirement (Section 6 of ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual)
>
> Author: Thomas Narten and Lea Roberts
>
> [Balance deleted]