[ppml] Summary of Trial Balloons for Dealing with IPv4AddressCountdown

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Marla,  the evolution thing is already listed, it is item #2

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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