[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2026-1: Taking IP To Other Planets (TIPTOP)

[Mike Burns]

+1 for operator choice and not top-down forcing of protocol transition!
Regards,
Mike


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On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 03:21:16PM -0700, Tony Li wrote:
> 
> Hi Joe,
> 
> > Considering appendix A of deepspace-ip-assessment, why does this 
> > policy speak to IPv4 at all?
> 
> 
> Because there are some other pragmatic issues that I think that 
> we???ve touched on before.
> 
> Today, space agencies are already using IPv4 addresses for all of the 
> usual legacy reasons. They have IPv4 infrastructure, and some of that 
> may not be easily upgradeable.


Thanks Tony! So we're going to rely on operator choice and market forces
rather than bake it into policy.

Cheers,

Joe

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