On 7/08/2009, at 23:21 , <myamanis at bb.softbank dot co dot jp> <myamanis at bb.softbank dot co dot jp > wrote:
Dear Terry and Andy, Sorry for very delayed comment.As a community, we have done much to promote the adoption of IPv6. This policy proposal extends the efforts by removing the APNIC application barrier to receiving IPv6 address space.At least for me, it is not so clear whether there is such barrier or not.
In May this year the NRO produced a document "NRO Response to TSB ‘Questionnaire on IPv6 Address Allocation and Encouraging the Deployment of IPv6’"- available at http://nro.org/news/nro-response-to-itu.html
This document has some figures on IPv6 allocation across the globe and I've been looking at the figures for our region. One thing that is clear to me is that address allocation to economies in South East Asia is much higher than in the rest of the region. That's what we'd expect - Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China have deployed IPv6 with enthusiasm.
Australia also has plenty of IPv6 address space allocated and New Zealand to a lesser degree.
But looking at the tables in the document there are plenty of economies that haven't done much or anything about this.
So I think that your view of IPv6 may depend on where you live and work.In the document there's also a section on the biggest hurdles to IPv6 deployment. Availability of IPv6 address space isn't cited there but "Lack of IPv6 expertise" is the second highest hurdle listed. I think it's pretty hard to gain expertise without training and the opportunity to experiment with available IPv6 address space.
7. Effect on NIRs ------------------The impact on the NIR would depend if the NIR adopts this proposal fortheir constituency.I think, we need to consider the impact when this policy will be also implemented to NIRssince more IPv6 address will be comsumed. Isn't there any comment or information from NIR people?
Our proposal doesn't try to impose this solution on the NIRs but we recognise that it may have some influence on their policies. I'd also like to hear from anyone who has a view on this.