[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal 113: IPv6 for 6rd

[Buhrmaster, Gary]

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> michael.dillon at bt.com
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> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal 113: IPv6 for 6rd

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> I'd be in favor of a policy that allowed holders of /32 or bigger
> blocks justified normally, to ask for an additional larger
> and TEMPORARY block to deploy the transition technology known
> as 6RD. Of course, when the public Internet has transitioned
> to IPv6 and 6RD is being decommissioned in favor of simple
> plain IPv6, then the 6RD allocation would be returned to ARIN.
> It would also be nice for ARIN to ask the question, every year,
> When will you return your 6RD allocation and to publish that
> target date in the whois directory entry for the allocation.

Given the history of IPv6, I would expect that such
a "transition" technology timeframe would be measured
in decades.

If one accepts the 6rd transition technology (and
one does not have to; I would encourage any/all to
propose alternatives if one has a better idea), one
will also have to accept the "largish" allocations
that will need to be made, and I will assert getting
those 6rd allocations back is not going to happen
(and any efforts to do so would be better off spent
elsewhere).

Personally, I am more than willing to accept
"largish" IPv6 allocations if that helps move
IPv6 deployment forward.  And I believe it will.

Gary