On Feb 18, 2008, at 6:11 AM, <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
the article here http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/021308-ipv6-delay.html is an interesting read given the current state of IPv4 depletion/IPv6 conversion operational climate. As it is indicated, it's a proposal and there are considerations as to whether it makes things better or worse.
Not sure what proposal this article refers to. The proposals under discussion are posted here <http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/proposal_archive.html>
Only after they are accepted by the AC as a formal proposal and assigned a number. The article is referring to a proposal submitted by the ARIN AC which, if adopted, would allow for organizations to transfer address space to other organizations under dramatically different circumstances than are allowed today. That policy proposal is available here: http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2008-February/009978.html
Not to mention the negative effects of an increase in the number of small routes in the Internet routing table. You might pay half a million dollars for a /24 only to find that ISPs will not accept your route announcements. Yet another reason why a registered IP address block, in itself, is not valuable enough to buy or sell.
Actually, the proposed policy provides significant limits to the de-aggregation which can be done in its current form.
In any case, nothing is decided before the meeting in Denver on the 6th to 9th of April 2008. In fact, even then it won't be decided, just past the first hurdle.
True. However, there is also a NANOG BoF where several members of the ARIN AC will be present to get input from the community on the subject of this proposal, and, other ideas/strategies for IPv4 after IANA free pool exhaustion. The BoF will be in the Crystal Room from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM on Tuesday, Feb. 19. Owen DeLong ARIN AC