[ppml] Alternative address distribution systems (was Proposal 2005-8)

[Howard, W. Lee]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Geoff Huston
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:30 PM
> To: Rich Emmings
> Cc: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Proposed Policy: Proposal to amend ARIN 
> IPv6 assignment and utilisation requirement
> 
> At 12:00 AM 2/09/2005, Rich Emmings wrote:
> >Opposed.
> >

> When to consider such a change to the address plan is very 
> much a public 
> policy topic. While there is a temptation to leave well alone, from a 
> public policy perspective we stand the risk of, yet again, 
> visibly creating 
> an early adopter reward and a corresponding late adopter set 
> of barriers 
> and penalties. I suspect that IP has already exhausted any 
> tolerance that 
> may have been enjoyed in the past on this type of behaviour 
> and there is a 
> strong impetus on the part of many developing populous 
> economies not to see 
> such a precise rerun of what they would term previous 
> mistakes. This is not 
> an abstract concept but one where we are already seeing 
> proposals from the 
> ITU-T to establish an alternative address distribution system 
> that is based 
> around this particular concern of re-creating a framework 
> that has already 
> established early adopter rewards and late adopter penalties 
> in IPv4, and 
> is looking to repeat this same inequitous pattern in IPv6..

I'm glad somebody brought this up.  There's been no discussion
in this neighborhood of alternative address distribution
systems.  Kind of odd, since there's been lots of talk about
it in other places.  For instance:

http://www.circleid.com/channel/index/C0_1_1/
http://www.circleid.com/channel/index/C0_8_1/
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/itut-wsis/files/zhao-netgov01.doc
http://www.wgig.org/docs/WGIGREPORT.pdf

What would people here think of allocating part of IPv6 to
alternative registries?  Would it make a difference in your
opinion if the registries were national?  Would it make a 
difference in your opinion if the ITU were coordinating?

Lee


>     Geoff Huston