[125165] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Apr 9 13:26:54 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <DB45E0AB-AA3B-497A-A991-B8704150A4C7@istaff.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 07:26:25 -1000
To: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:34 AM, John Curran wrote:
> Another bright gentleman many years ago suggested that we have an =
online=20
> website which allows anyone to pay a fee and get an address block. =
This=20
> is not inconceivable, but does completely set aside hierarchical =
routing
> which is currently an underlying mechanism for making our addressing=20=
> framework scalable.
Doesn't end user PI assignment already do this? Note I'm not arguing =
against end user PI assignment policy, rather just making the =
observation that given IPv6 did not address routing scalability, the =
path we're heading down is obvious, the only question is how fast. The =
problem is that ARIN is getting in the way of people (some of which are =
ARIN members) dumping nitrous into the combustion chamber.
This doesn't seem like a stable, long term viable situation to me.
Regards,
-drc
