[ppml] Policy Proposal: IPv4 Soft Landing

[John Paul Morrison]

This is a great idea, and could certainly seed additional information or 
awareness, like the real world availability of v6 etc.


michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
>> I think having a policy that says that after certain time (in 
>> fact I'd prefer it to be specified as a year rather then IPv4 
>> depletion thereshold), ISPs MUST demonstrate availability of 
>> IPv6 infrastructure before getting new ipv4 space is in fact 
>> good for IPv6 deployment and its production use which is 
>> ultimate goal here.
>>     
>
> I would prefer to see a new policy that says effective immediately, all
> applications for assignments or allocations must include the answers to
> a set of questions about the organization's preparations for IPv6. This
> is not an arduous requirement because it doesn't force the applicant to
> do anything more than research information internally and report it to
> ARIN. This is the kind of thing that the contacts already do. But it
> does raise the awareness of IPv6 inside these organizations because the
> questions are being asked.
>
> I haven't specified the exact questions because this is not a formal
> proposal. But I would think that they should be the type of questions
> that are meaningful for reporting statistics about IPv6 planning.
> Ideally, the author of the questions would seek some assistance from a
> university department (sociology, economics) to help structure the
> questions so that the statistics can detect movement through stages
> getting closer to a fully-functional network service.
>
> These types of statistics would be invaluable to show us the true state
> of IPv6 activity in North America. It may not be as far away as you
> think. And the very fact that we collect and publish such statistics
> helps raise public awareness of the address exhaustion issue without
> mandating any particular action. Through increased awareness we will get
> a better sense of what actions the industry would support ARIN in.
>
> And we should be able to do all of this independent of the other RIRs.
> The fact that there is a particular set of statistics being collected by
> all RIRs in a coordinated way, does not preclude ARIN from collecting or
> publishing some of its own stats. I made a suggestion that ARIN should
> provide regular (maybe monthly) reports of the IPv6 uptake among orgs
> with IPv4 allocations and assignments. That got rejected because it was
> too hard to coordinate with RIPE et al. which is irrelevant since I
> suggested that ARIN do this to shed some light on the North American
> situation.
>
> --Michael Dillon
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