[apnic-announce] RIRs seek IANA approval to commence IPv6 allocations.
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On Friday 28 May 1999, APNIC, ARIN, and the RIPE NCC sent the following
email to IANA, seeking formal delegation of IPv6 address ranges and
approval to commence IPv6 allocations on the basis of an agreed
provisional policy document. The document, "Provisional IPv6 Assignment
and Allocation Policies" is available on the APNIC website at:
http://www.apnic.net/drafts/ipv6/ipv6-policy-280599.html.
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Joint Regional Internet Registry email to IANA
To: the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Subject: Initial IPv6 allocations
As you will be aware, APNIC, ARIN, and the RIPE NCC have for many months
been working closely with their respective memberships and the IPv6
community to produce a document setting out the policies and guidelines
required for supporting responsible management of IPv6 address space. We
now believe that the attached "Provisional IPv6 Assignment and Allocation
Policy Document" is sufficiently advanced to allow the initial "bootstrap"
phase of allocations to begin.
There is growing anticipation within the IPv6 community and the Internet
community in general that IPv6 operations be established as soon as
possible. We therefore propose to commence allocating sub-TLAs following
the general scheme described in the Internet Draft "Initial IPv6 Sub-TLA
Assignments" <draft-ietf-ipngwg-iana-tla-o1.txt> and the more specific
policies and guidelines set out in the attached policy document.
Although the document will be further developed and refined in the coming
months - according to the input and experience gained during the initial
period - the general community support for this document is strong enough
to justify its implementation in its current form.
Accordingly, the Regional Internet Registries seek IANA's formal
delegation of the address ranges specified in the Internet Draft and the
approval to commence IPv6 allocations on the basis set out in this email.
On behalf and with the authority of:
Paul Wilson, Director-General APNIC
Kim Hubbard, President ARIN
Daniel Karrenberg, General Manager RIPE NCC
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