[arin-ppml] An article of interest to the community....

[Milton L Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> multilayer NAT. So to me the need for a global transition to IPv6
> remains inevitable no matter what happens in the IPv4 number resources
> market. IPv4 is just too small no matter how efficiently the world
> learns to use it. Perhaps some investors (and perhaps some speculators)
> would be well served by lengthening the lifetime of IPv4 by a few more
> years, 

These kinds of comments show a certain lack of sensitivity to the needs of actual network operators. Given the pace of the IPv6 transition, and the fact that even those who migrate must use some combination of NAT and IPv4 to remain compatible with most of the internet, we have no choice but to lengthen the lifetime of IPv4. 
No one knows how long that period will be. Do you? If you've received some divine illumination on that score, by all means publish it. If you are just evangelizing IPv6, spare us, we've heard it 100 times before. 

> but the bigger the IPv4 network gets the harder it will be to
> pull it through the knothole of the IPv6 transition.

Since IPv6 migration REQUIRES a larger IPv4 network during the dual stacking period of transition, this is a pretty "interesting" observation

> In summary, ARIN has a transfer policy and ARIN stands ready to record
> the results of private party transactions in IPv4 numbering resources.

That's good to hear.