[arin-ppml] Straw poll on special policy for electric energy industry

[Scott Leibrand]

This seems like an opportunity for education and outreach, rather than  
for punitive policy.

Scott

On Oct 5, 2009, at 2:50 PM, <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:

>
> This is just a question to see what people think about creating a
> special policy that applies to companies wishing to provide
> infrastructure for the electric utility industry Smart Grid.
>
> Basically, the situation is this as described by Richard Shockey on  
> the
> IETF list:
>
>   Myself and others are deeply concerned by how this effort is
> developing.
>   There is no current consensus on what the communications  
> architecture
> of the
>   SmartGrid is or how IP actually fits into it.
>
>   The Utility Industry does not understand the current IPv4 number
> exhaust
>   problem and the consequences of that if they want to put a IP  
> address
> on
>   every Utility Meter in North America.
>
>   What is equally troubling is that many of the underlying protocols
> that
>   utilities wish to deploy are not engineered for IPv6. We have an
> example of
>   that in a recent ID.
>
> Basically, what I am suggesting is that we introduce a special policy
> that
> bans the Electric Utility industry from receiving any IPv4  
> addressing at
> all,
> either direct ARIN allocations or ISP assignments, if those addresses
> are intended
> for any kind of Smart Grid application. This ban would also apply to
> third parties
> and subcontractors who might be operating components of the Smart  
> Grid.
>
> Note that this special policy would not apply to any other use of IP  
> in
> an
> electric utility company, only to the Smart Grid.
>
> This would send a clear message to the utility industry that there is
> simply not enough IPv4 address space left for a new major user, and
> would
> help them get their plans around IPv6 worked out earlier, rather than
> wasting their time and money on something that will NEVER fly.
>
> Seems to me this fits well within ARIN's educational purpose.
>
> If possible, we should try to word this policy in such a way that it
> could be adopted by the other RIRs because the Smart Grid movement is
> now world wide.
>
> --Michael Dillon
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