ARIN IPv6 Policy

[J. Scott Marcus]

At 18:02 03/12/2001 +0000, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

> ...  This was considered
>	by the ARIN AC and was sent to the Board. ARINs president just
>	made the announcment that ARIN is adopting the IAB/IESG recommendation
>	modulo operational experience...


Actually, Bill, this is not quite right.

The Board generally wants new public policies to be introduced by the AC
and then discussed by the membership and the general public before we act.
The sentiment within the Board was that this requirement was not adequately
met (for a variety of reasons) by the discussion that took place at our
last Public Policy meeting.

Ray Plzak's e-mail did NOT state that this policy was now in effect.  He
noted that the AC had recommended it, and called for discussion.  We give
_great weight_ to AC recommendations, but they do not automatically become
policy.

What Ray said was:

>After a discussion concerning the IAB/IESG recommendation for IPv6 address
>space allocation on the ARIN IPv6 WG mail list, the ARIN Advisory Council
>is proposing that the following be the ARIN policy concerning IPv6 address
>space allocation:
>
>"ARIN will allocate IPv6 addresses according to the Internet Draft
><http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iesg-ipv6-addressing-recommen
dations-00.txt>. 
>This policy will be regularly reviewed and modified subject to operational
>experience."
>
>Any interested party is invited to comment on this proposed policy on the
>ARIN IPv6 WG mail list...