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

[Milton L Mueller]

I agree with Ted's comments.
--MM

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> Behalf Of Ted Mittelstaedt
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 1:25 PM
> To: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN Advisory Council Thoughts about IPv4
> Policies
> 
> 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.
> > Please provide comments either through PPML or directly to individual
> > AC members.
> >
> > On Behalf of the ARIN Advisory Council,
> >
> > John Sweeting, Chair This E-mail and any of its attachments may
> > contain Time Warner Cable proprietary information, which is
> > privileged, confidential, or subject to copyright belonging to Time
> > Warner Cable. This E-mail is intended solely for the use of the
> > individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are not the
> > intended recipient of this E-mail, you are hereby notified that any
> > dissemination, distribution, copying, or action taken in relation to
> > the contents of and attachments to this E-mail is strictly prohibited
> > and may be unlawful. If you have received this E-mail in error,
> > please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the
> > original and any copy of this E-mail and any printout.
> >
> > _______________________________________________ PPML You are
> > receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public
> > Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML at arin.net). Unsubscribe or manage your
> > mailing list subscription at:
> > http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact
> > info at arin.net if you experience any issues.
> _______________________________________________
> PPML
> You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to
> the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML at arin.net).
> Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at:
> http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml
> Please contact info at arin.net if you experience any issues.