[124970] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Thu Apr 8 09:02:00 2010
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:00:52 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <201004081251.o38Cpl5W017606@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010, Joe Greco wrote:
> Because a legacy holder doesn't care about ARIN; a legacy holder has
> usable space that cannot be reclaimed by ARIN and who is not paying
> anything to ARIN. The point here is that this situation does not
> encourage adoption of IPv6, where suddenly there'd be an annual fee
> and a contract for the space. "ARIN" is incidental, simply the RIR
> responsible in this case.
Out of curiousity, I wonder whether the adoption of the internet
in the 90s would have occured if IPv4 addresses were allocated, managed
and controlled like they are today.
Adrian
