[125361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Mon Apr 12 18:06:34 2010
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:05:56 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201004091227.o39CRSva030382@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/9/10 5:27 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
>
> ARIN might not have a contract with us, or with other legacy holders.
> It wasn't our choice for ARIN to be tasked with holding up InterNIC's
> end of things. However, it's likely that they've concluded that they
> better do so, because if they don't, it'll probably turn into a costly
> legal battle on many fronts, and I doubt ARIN has the budget for that.
>
> As a legacy holder, we don't really care who is currently "responsible"
> for legacy maintenance/etc. However, whoever it is, if they're not
> going to take on those responsibilities, that's a problem.
>
> The previous poster asked, "If you don't have a contract with ARIN,
> why should ARIN provide you with anything?"
>
> Well, the flip side to that is, "ARIN doesn't have a contract with us,
> but we still have copies of the InterNIC policies under which we were
> assigned space, and ARIN undertook those duties, so ARIN is actually
> the one with significant worries if they were to try to pull anything,
> otherwise, we don't really care."
>
What do those InterNIC policies say about getting IPv6 space?
If nothing, expect nothing. If something, hold them to it.
~Seth
