[arin-ppml] ARIN Advisory Council Thoughts about IPv4 Policies

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

John,

   Two questions and a comment.

1) Is the AC then choosing to take all existing proposals that
are in the middle of the process and just short-circuit them?

Or does this just affect NEW policy proposals from this time period
onward?


2)What about policy proposals that affect BOTH IPv6 and IPv6
assignments?  Are they going to be affected by this "IPv4
short circuit" decision?


To be perfectly honest it seems to me that this is going to
force people who want to make IPv4 policy proposals to "float"
proposal ideas on the mailing list, in order to see if there will
be "strong initial support" rather than submit them to the policy 
proposal process, which then "floats" them to the community
and see if there's support via the policy proposal review process.

In other words, the effective result will be that the AC merely
succeeds in "informalizing" a portion of the policy proposal process
through the law of unintended consequences.

I don't know if this is what the AC really wants or not, but I am
pretty sure that this decision of the AC isn't going to stop the
flood of "IPv4 End Game" policy proposal ideas.

As long as there's a severe shortage of IPv4 (which there will be
post-runout) and IPv4 remains a requirement of Internet connectivity,
people will be motivated to attempt to modify ARIN's stewardship of
those resources via changes to the NRPM.

Ted

On 5/12/2010 8:51 AM, Sweeting, John wrote:
> To All Members of the Community,
>
> The AC strongly believes that the whole of the ARIN community
> requires and deserves a stable policy environment in order to better
> prepare and plan for IPv4 run out and deployment of IPv6.
>
> With that in mind, the AC would like to advise the community that
> unless a proposal affecting IPv4 assignments has a compelling benefit
> for and receives strong initial support from the community the AC
> will most likely choose to abandon the proposal. The AC recognizes
> its commitment to the community and after introspection and
> discussion has concluded that this is the best course of action.
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