Oddly enough, someone proposed something very much along these lines
at a couple of RIR meetings (see "IPv4 Soft Landing"), and in fact
used the 'driving into a brick wall' analogy. Many of the folks who
commented on that policy proposal felt it was inappropriate for RIRs
to dictate business models (that is, if an ISP doesn't want to move to
IPv6, it wouldn't be 'right' for an RIR to force them to). The
proposer eventually gave up as the impedance mismatch between reality
and the RIR policy making process became too great to observe without
breaking into uncontrollable giggles.
Regards,
-drc
On Apr 20, 2009, at 7:56 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
ARIN should ask companies to demonstrate:
- demonstration of routing of an IPv6 range/using IPv6 address space
- demonstration of services being offered over IPv6
- a plan to migrate customers to IPv6
- automatic allocation of IPv6 range instead of IPv4 for those who
can't do so.
ie. No more IPv4 for you until you've shown IPv6 clue.
Then people can't just get away with driving into the brick wall of
IPv4-allocation fail.
(Not sure if I'm serious about this suggestion, but it's there now).
MMC
On 21/04/2009, at 9:09 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
Let me see if I can understand this.
We're running out of IPv4 space.
Knowing that blatant lying about IP space justifications has been an
ongoing game in the community, ARIN has decided to "do something"
about
it.
So now they're going to require an attestation. Which means that
they
are going to require an "officer" to "attest" to the validity of the
information.
So the "officer," most likely not being a technical person, is
going to
contact ... probably the same people who made the request, ask
them if
they need the space. Right?
And why would the answer be any different, now?
... JG
--
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance
[and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-
mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too
many apples.
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