[ppml] Summary of Trial Balloons for Dealing with IPv4AddressCountdown

[David Williamson]

Assuming there's a decent 6-to-4 infrastructure in place, why would
anyone ever want to leave v4?  I don't see it turning into a ghetto for
a very long time.  The installed base is very large, and it will
definitely be a long time before even half of the fortune 500 are off
of IPv4.

Sorry, but the crystal ball I have gets *really* fuzzy at 20-30 years
out, and there's no way to convince me that yours works any better.

-David


On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 08:23:06PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> As for reserve space, that would only be relevant if the Internet were to
> not ever switch
> over to IPv6.  Once we hit the 80-90th percentile of sites on the Internet
> reachable via
> IPv6, your going to see a lot of people beginning to block out ALL IPv4
> route advertisements
> merely to save space in their routing tables.
> 
> I do not see how on an Internet that is IPv6, that you could have any
> support for
> a legacy block of routed IPv4.  It would become a ghetto that would be used
> by spammers and all manner of criminals to launch network attacks.  No, the
> sites that feel they cannot switch over to IPv6 will simply have to
> disconnect
> once most of the rest of the world is IPv6.
> 
> Personally I might not mind drivng a car in the US that has a 150 inch width
> but
> the rest of the world isn't going to widen it's roads for me.  Thus it will
> be for the
> sites that want to stay IPv4 forever.
> 
> Ted
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net]On Behalf Of
> Azinger, Marla
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 3:22 PM
> To: Jim Weyand; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Summary of Trial Balloons for Dealing with
> IPv4AddressCountdown
> 
> 
>   Jim-  Thank you for taking time on this issue and trying to organize the
> thoughts a bit.
> 
>   Right now I view alot of the sujbect matter that makes up this issue as
> being resolved by evolution.   That said there is one thing on your list
> below that we could write policy for and one thing that is not on your list
> that needs to be discussed and possibly policy written for.
> 
>   The one thing that you dont have below that I think does need to be
> answered by our community is...should we have a reserve of IPv4 space?  If
> yes, who/what would qualify for the reserved address space?  Are there
> truely entities that will never be able to transition to IPv4?  Who can do
> the research to create a list of valid qualifications?
> 
>   The item on your list below that could use policy is Recycling IPv4
> addresses after we have ran out.  How is the RIR to handle this?  Do they
> put them on a wait list?  Is the wait list first come first serve?  Is it
> prioritized somehow?  Or if we voted to have a reserve are the returned IPv4
> addresses added to the reserve and all that dont qualify under reserve
> standards are told switch to IPv6?
> 
>   Ok.  That is my two cents.
>   Thank you for your time
>   Marla Azinger
>   Frontier Communications
> 
>   [Azinger, Marla]
>    -----Original Message-----
>   From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net]On Behalf Of Jim
> Weyand
>   Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:35 PM
>   To: ppml at arin.net
>   Subject: [ppml] Summary of Trial Balloons for Dealing with IPv4
> AddressCountdown
> 
> 
>     It seems like it is time to start the relatively hard work of actually
> developing alternative policy proposals to deal with the IPv4 Address
> Exhaustion Issue.  It is too late to prepare proposals for the April meeting
> but we have about 5 months before the cutoff for the October meeting.  I
> have never written a proposal to any of the governing bodies but my guess it
> will take at least that long to: gather a group of like-minded individuals;
> negotiate the details of what to propose; write the proposal; seek feedback;
> rewrite the proposal; etc, etc until the proposal is either accepted or made
> irrelevant by another proposal.
> 
> 
> 
>     I find myself struggling with how to convert the suggestions and
> comments on this list into actual policy proposals.
> 
> 
> 
>     I think it is useful at this point to list the different trial balloons
> and proposals that have been suggested and discussed regarding IPv4 address
> exhaustion.  If you have a favorite that I have missed, send it to me
> privately and I will send out a revised summary in a week or so.
> 
> 
> 
>     1)       Policy Proposal 2007-12: IPv4 Countdown Policy Proposal – I
> believe this is the only proposal that can be voted on at the upcoming
> meeting in April.  The full text can be found at:
> http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2007_12.html.  This proposal will, “Set
> the date for termination of (IPv4) allocations and the date of announcement”
> .  This proposal specifically does not address IP address recycling except
> to say that, “Recovery of unused address space should be discussed
> separately.”
> 
>     2)       An informal proposal to not make any changes to current policy
> until absolutely necessary
> 
>     3)       An informal proposal to encourage address recycling by
> increasing ARIN dues
> 
>     4)       Several similar informal proposals to encourage recycling by
> empowering ARIN to more actively police the use of IPv4 addresses by various
> means
> 
>     5)       An informal proposal to change the nature of assigned IPv4
> addresses to something similar to real property
> 
>     6)       An informal proposal to ask holders of unused address IPv4
> addresses to voluntarily return the addresses
> 
>     7)       Several variants of informal proposals to start assigning IPv6
> space with IPv4
> 
>     8)       An informal proposal to get endusers to demand access to IPv6
> networks by creating a media storm similar to Y2K.
> 
> 
> 
>     It is time to make up your mind, roll up your sleeves and get to work.
> The current policies for dealing with IPv4 Addresses are not causing a
> crisis… yet.  It is however an urgent issue and extremely important.

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