[arin-ppml] Semi-serious proposal to start 2011

[Martin Hannigan]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Tony Hain <alh-ietf at tndh.net> wrote:
> David Williamson wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 09:18:24AM -0800, Tony Hain wrote:
>> > There is a simple way to deal with all the list noise on pp124 & 125,
>> as
>> > well as reduce the wasted time and energy of the ARIN staff while we
>> are at
>> > it .... Transfer all remaining ARIN IPv4 resources in a split between
>> Lacnic
>> > & Afrinic today, and move on. The useless efforts to micromanage the
>> end of
>> > the pool are not doing anyone any good, and certainly not motivating
>> the
>> > deployment of IPv6 as much as a solid 'sorry we have no more' answer
>> from
>> > ARIN would.
>> >
>> > It is time to stop focusing on the past and just let it go.
>>
>> An interesting idea, but what gives us the right to foist the problem
>> off on to them?  If the remaining ARIN IPv4 space is contentious for
>> us, what would it do in those regions?
>
> That was more about the perpetual claims about historical unfairness that
> ARIN has more blocks. Also, if they hold to their regional burn rates, they
> will never use them up to become contentious because the global Internet
> will have long since given up on IPv4.
>

That's vacuous fundamentalism. Thinking strictly about volume
(addresses and currency) without thinking of need. If the people
whispering that old argument want to have a fairness debate they
should discuss why various-registries was carved up evenly despite the
differentiating need across the regions. But as you say, it is most
definitely water under the bridge.

>> Perhaps the best move is to just run it out.  That may yet happen - I
>> don't see much chance of broadly supported policy passing before "the
>> end".
>
> I didn't bother with a template because it would just cause unnecessary work
> for the AC.

Thank you. This would've ended up as a ceremonial piglet with a short
line of suitors trying to apply multiple shades of lipstick. I think
we have better things to do.


Best,

-M<