RE: [GLOBAL-V6]IPv6 Allocation Policy

["Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>]

Hi Izumi,

> Izumi Okutani wrote:
> Thanks for summarising the choices. May I suggest adding
> "Producing an IPv6 guide" as an option to deal with the
> issues as well?

I hope you are not thinking about me to write this guide, as I do not
feel qualified by any means. I was merely trying to contribute to the
question that Gert raised a while ago about from a protocol designer's
point of view.


> I am thinking of a guide similar to APNIC's "APNIC guidelines
> for IPv4 allocation and assignment requests"
> (http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/ipv4-guidelines.html),
> but should be shared among all RIRs for IPv6 version.


What about:
http://www.arin.net/policy/ipv6_policy.html
This document is common to all RIRs AFAIK.

It might not be as flexible as you wish, but I would gladly leave
improvements and/or additions to it in the capable hands of Thomas
Narten and other valued colleagues that have experience in policy
matters.

I will gladly comment on technical solutions and their relation to
policy matters.

Thanks,
Michel.


P.S: Note to Gert:
Given the zero interest and the multiple hurdles associated with the
geographic scheme I suggested earlier, I'll gladly drop it in favor of
your proposed solution of allocating a large block to each RIR up front.
Related to IANA-to-RIR delegation, I still think that this geo scheme is
superior to a single monolithic block and makes sense from an engineer's
point of view, but is a political liability that I can't commit any
resources to lobby for.