[ppml] Policy Proposal: IPv4 Soft Landing

[David Conrad]

On May 11, 2007, at 2:05 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> I like very much this proposal and will support it.

Oh no!  It's doomed!  :-)

More seriously, thanks for the support.

> 1) I think "plans" is not enough for the ARIN staff to verify, and  
> is an
> easy path for people to actually "make up" the plans. I will  
> suggest that
> those plans need to be checked later on and space reclaimed if they  
> aren't
> being followed. There may be other choices of course.
...
> 2) One possibility (will also work for 1) is to actually verify the  
> plans
> and the IPv6 deployment with a 3rd party audit, same as suggested  
> for IPv4
> utilization. Otherwise ARIN staff may have problems to verify  
> everything.

I'd ask for input from ARIN staff on this one.

> Moreover, who is going to pay the 3rd party audit ?

I would assume the requester although I can see arguments for ARIN to  
pay.  Should this be explicit in the policy or should it be left as  
an implementation choice?

Rgds,
-drc