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

[William Herrin]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Sweeting, John
<john.sweeting at twcable.com> wrote:
> 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.

John,

Did you consider that you might better serve your published goal by
instead announcing that the AC won't move new IPv4 proposals to _last
call_ unless they demonstrate overwhelming support? That would at
least allow everybody involved both on the list and at the meetings to
discuss the ideas inside the process that can lead to forming a
policy.

What you've basically said here is that anyone who wants to seriously
discuss an IPv4 proposal should plan on using the petition process,
effectively rubbing the AC out of the picture and robbing the proposal
of the AC's advice. That seems less than ingenious.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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