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Roman"">ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP
Suggestion 2012.23. The suggestion and response text are
provided below. This suggestion is now closed and is available
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New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-23.html">https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2012-23.html</a></span><span
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</span><span
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</span><span
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Roman"">Communications and Member Services</span><span
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New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
Roman"">American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)</span><span
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Suggestion: </span></b><span
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Stop preaching to the choir.<br>
<br>
While I appreciate the idea behind sending a "You know, we're
running out of this, right?" message along to everyone who asks for
IPv4, it would be nice if staff were given discretion to skip that
under any of the following circumstances:<br>
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Requestor describes their IPv6 plans in their IPv4 request.<br>
Requestor is known to be IPv6-aware.<br>
Requesting ORG already has IPv6 resources.<br>
For an example of this, see ARIN-2012-12-06-X6566 which meets 2 of
the 3 criteria.<span style="font-family:
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New Roman";color:black">Response:</span></b><span
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We understand that it may seem redundant and that we are "preaching
to the choir" when we remind all IPv4 requestors that IPv4 depletion
is imminent and the need to transition to IPv6 is now. However, as
stewards of the Internet number resources in the ARIN region, we see
it from a variety of perspectives. While we understand that there
are some organizations who are aware of IPv6 and are actively
planning their transition, we know of many more who are either
unaware of the IPv4 depletion situation or who are aware but are
intentionally delaying their transition to IPv6 . It is this
audience that we are seeking to educate, and more importantly, to
notify well in advance that ARIN will not be able to continue
supplying IPv4 addresses to them in the future and if they plan on
growing their businesses, they will need to do so using IPv6 address
space. We feel that is an extremely important message that we need
to continue getting out to the community at every opportunity, and
that this is consistent with the mandate set forth by the ARIN Board
of Trustees in their 2007 resolution
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arin.net/knowledge/about_resources/v6/v6-resolution.html">https://www.arin.net/knowledge/about_resources/v6/v6-resolution.html</a><br>
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This suggestion is now considered closed. We thank you for
participating in the ARIN ACSP.<br>
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