Re: [sig-policy] prop-073-v002: Automatic allocation/assignment of IPv6
Hi Andy, Terry.
I'd been waiting for v2 of this before commenting :).
Under this proposal, APNIC would reserve the appropriately sized IPv6
block for each APNIC member that has IPv4 addresses but does not yet
have IPv6 addresses.
I don't agree with this.
Why must we reserve IPv6 address space in advance? I'm not sure what
real problem this is trying to solve. To me this suggests that there
is a risk APNIC won't have IPv6 address space when someone requests
it, or that it will take some unacceptably long time to allocate -
which I can't quite believe.
4.1 Alternative criteria be added to the IPv6 allocation and
assignment
policies to allow APNIC members that have IPv4 but no IPv6 space
to qualify for an appropriately size IPv6 block under the matching
IPv6 policy.
This I like.
4.4 APNIC members can request the reserved IPv6 address block be
allocated/assigned to their member account via a simple mechanism
in existing APNIC on-line systems.
Assuming 4.1 is in place, then this makes sense also. The
justification for obtaining IPv6 space is assumed based on the holding
of IPv4 space.
To increase visibility of this proposal, the authors recommend that
the
APNIC Secretariat communicate to members and others that the criteria
for receiving IPv6 space has been reduced and that the process of
obtaining IPv6 address space has been made simpler. We recommend
this to
show that there is no effective barrier to members obtaining IPv6
addresses.
I must agree with other people's comments here. This is something
that should be happening anyway, and doesn't really belong in a policy
proposal.
If IPv6 communications from APNIC are not effective at the moment,
then APNIC and the community need to understand why, and improve
communications if there is a workable alternative approach.
Cheers,
Jonny.