Last Call for Comment on New IPv6 Policy

[J. Scott Marcus]

At 09:35 05/02/2001 -0400, Member Services wrote:
>
>Following discussion at the April ARIN Public Policy meetings, the
>recommendation of the ARIN Advisory Committee was modified slightly.
>Please see the announcement of this discussion and read the
>current recommended policy, based on the consensus of those attending the
>meeting:
>
>	http://www.arin.net/announcements/ipv6_wg2.html
>
>You have ten (10) working days, or until 1700 Eastern Time, 16 May 2001, 
>to comment on the IPv6 Working group mailing list. Please see the above
>announcement for instructions on how to subscribe to v6wg at arin.net.
>
>The Advisory Council will consider all comments before making their
>recommendation to the Board of Trustees...


I coulda' sworn I sent an e-mail to the following effect to this list last
week, but I do not see it, so here goes again...

As I read the proposed text, it references an Internet Draft:
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iesg-ipv6-addressing-recommenda
tions-00.txt

The earliest date on which the ARIN Board will take up this issue is at our
meeting on July 27.  For a number of reasons, I would propose that the
Board replace this reference, if appropriate, with the most suitable
version of the specification available as of that date.  Reasons include:

1) It is, of course, poor practice in general to reference an I-D in any
permanent document or policy.

2) This particular draft will have EXPIRED before the Board takes up the
issue (Six months from a publication date of January 23, 2001 is July 23 or
thereabouts).

3) The authors are revising the document to reflect some important
understandings about responsibility for administration of the bits to the
left of the /48 dividing line, consistent with presentations made to the
ARIN Public Policy meeting.  This draft does not reflect those changes.

4) There is a reasonable chance that a clean version will be available as
an RFC before the ARIN Board meets.



Makes sense?

Cheers,
- Scott






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