[arin-ppml] the Transfer Policy Argument Space

[David Farmer]

On 3 Sep 2008 bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

> > 1. IPv6 is a failure and can not succeed, therefore we must extend
> > the life of IPv4 indefinitely beyond free poll exhaustion, a
> > transfer policy is part of that;
> > 
> > 2. IPv6 will eventually succeed, however we need to keep IPv4 viable
> > until the transiton is complete, a transfer policy will help keep
> > IPv4 viable beyond  free poll exhaustion;
> > 
> > 3. IPv6 will eventually succeed, but only if there is a forcing
> > function to move people from IPv4, free poll exhaustion is this
> > forcing function;
> > 
> > 
> 
> David,
> 
>  how about lets leave IPv6 (mostly) out of the discussion?

IPv6 has been a big part of the arguments I've seen, so I'm not sure I've will 
to eliminate it from the argument space, but I'm more that happy to have 
IPv4 only argumnets in the argument space.  And I like this one, are there 
more?

> ) IPv4 will continue to be used/useful for the next N years
> (N==10-20). 
> 
> ) Demand for IPv4 has outstripped supply.
> 
> ) Until viable alternatives become available, the trend will be to
> find 
>   more efficent ways to use the IPv4 pool.
> 
> 
> --bill



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