[arin-ppml] Addressing for other planets

[Warren Kumari]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM, Lee Howard <arin-ppml at arin.net> wrote:

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


+lots.

IMO one of the RIR's could administer the ranges (or provide a backed to a
new RIR), but the policy decisions and proposals are global in nature…
W


> > 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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