[arin-ppml] End non-public IPv4 assignments?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <AANLkTikYrXt3YZyo-VDcvxsa8b0AC_mjB5+KT-=Ah7Qz at mail.gmail.com>, Will
iam Herrin writes:
> On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> >I support the idea of amending the proposal to prohibit ARIN
> >from granting requests for other space for this aspect of LSN
> >implementation.
> 
> Hi Owen,
> 
> This raises a question that I find interesting. ARIN still allows IPv4
> address assignments for individual registrant networks which are not
> routed on the public Internet. The registrant has to supply some kind
> of vaguely defined technical justification for it and I gather that's
> not easy but it remains possible. Is it time to bring that era to a
> close? Grandfather in the folks who've justified non-connected
> assignments in the past but make no new ones regardless of
> justification?

No.  As IPv6 takes off there will be less and less need for most
of us to have IPv4 addresses at all.  Eventually lots of IPv4
assignments should be returned.

Who of us worries about our email domain having a A or AAAA record
anymore?  There was a time when you would have both a A and MX
record at the domain.  These days just a MX will do.

Similarly the need for IPv4 addreses will go away.  IPv4 addresses
will be used by private networks.

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Mark Andrews, ISC
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