[arin-ppml] Addressing for other planets

[Lee Howard]

    On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 02:28:03 PM GMT-3, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:  

> Taking my Bill Herrin hat off and putting my Advisory Council hat on:

> If you want to achieve something like this at ARIN, at some point you
> would write and submit a number policy proposal which does three
> things:

It is not clear to me that ARIN can or should consider an extra-terrestrial policy without support from the other RIRs.
In other words, I think this should be discussed as a global policy proposal, shepherded by the NRO NC.
> 1. Establishes criteria in the ARIN NRPM where IP addresses deployed
> in outer space are considered in use for the purpose of ARIN
> determining an organization's use and qualification.

> 2. Establishes pools of IPv4 addresses reserved for each of the
> specific celestial bodies, and the quantity reserved for each.
IPv4? How much could possibly be reserved?
> 3. Establishes pools of IPv6 addresses reserved for each of the
> specific celestial bodies, and the quantity reserved for each.
I am concerned that this scope is limited to the solar system. Further, it is not clear to me that every "celestial body" (some of the examples, like the lagrange points or asteroid belt, aren't even bodies) needs the same allocation. Further, are moons numbered from their parent planet, or from separate allocations? As proposed, Earth's moon gets as much address space as L3 and as Pluto, but I don't know what Europa and Deimos get.

> Finally, you'd specify that implementation would pend a request from
> IANA pursuant to publication of the relevant TIPTOP RFC.

I'm pretty sure that RFC7020, and the ASO MoU, mean that requests for address allocations from from the ASO. The IETF can establish new protocol registries and request protocol numbers, but addresses are in the RIR system. 

IMHO, YMMV,
Lee  
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