Re: [sig-policy] prop-073:Automatic allocation/assignment of IPv6
the Internet equivalent of someone standing on a street corner giving
out leaflets for some wonder product that no one is really interested
in. And we know what happens to those leaflets.
Giving something to people who don't want it has never worked for
anything else in life, so I don't know why we'd be so naive to think
that it would magically cause IPv6 to be universally deployed and used
across our region.
Getting IPv6 address space is trivially easy for service providers at least.
If there are non-service provider organisations who want IPv6 address
space but cannot get it, I'd much rather see us work on a policy
proposal that allows them to obtain and use IPv6.
Further, I would be more interested in supporting a policy which allowed
an APNIC account holder (or NIR member) with existing IPv4 resource
holding from APNIC to simply get IPv6 address space on request (without
prompting from the Secretariat). (But isn't this the case now, so I'm
left wondering what problem we are trying to solve here.)
BTW, 6.1 in the proposal is void - Fees are the responsibility of the
EC, not the Policy SIG.
philip
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