[ppml] Policy Proposal: Authentication of Legacy Resources

[michael.dillon at bt.com]

> I am not in favor of this proposal as it is pointless. IPv4 
> is going to go away anyway,

IPv4 is not going to go away for at least a generation, if ever. The
thing that is about to START disappearing is the public IPv4 Internet
because there are no longer enough free IPv4 addresses for this public
Internet to continue growing. 

> so it's a waste of time and 
> resources to chase people down and clean up the paperwork 
> from the pre-historic Internet. Anyone who needs new or 
> changed assignments can deal with an RSA at that time, while 
> legacy assignments will simply wither on the vine.

It is entirely possible that through a combination of actions involving
deployment of IPv6, deployment of IPv4-IPv6 gateway services, and RIR
address reclamation, we may never actually run out of IPv4 addresses,
just get very close to that point. Therefore, any and all address
reclamation efforts by ARIN are useful to the entire community. If we
ever get to a point where it is clear that address reclamation will not
stem the tide, I may change my opinion. But for now, we need to reclaim
as much legacy space as we can since we know that lots of this space is
unused.

--Michael Dillon