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

[William Herrin]

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

Michael,

I would not support a ban that targets a single industry but I would
support a ban on IPv4 address allocations for _embedded systems_ of
any sort that do not function as publicly accessible Internet servers.
To include cell phones and game consoles. And a cut-off date by which
folks holding public addresses for such a purpose must recover and
reallocate those addresses before they can get any more from ARIN.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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