Hi Tim, Thanks for contributing.Have you not seen the various publications and publicity already stating the bleak prediction? (see Geoff's train wreck slides, they are a hoot)
I thought APNIC had already sent numerous statements regarding the need to adopt v6 and how easy it should be?
Before I jumped on this idea of automatically allocating v6 prefixes, I was at a social gathering of enterprise type engineers. These are the engineers that work for corporate organisations whose core business is anything but Internet service provision or content provision. So really not the ISP/ASP market that seems (and I could be wrong) to make up the bulk of this policy list - just the downstream folk. At that event (which wasn't long after the ITU republished their IPv6 paper) I floated the question about when people were going to do an ipv6 deployment. The responses really centred around the stacked business case of justification and cost. Where neither are necessarily linked. The message from them (and I'm probably paraphrasing poorly) is that their management structures won't provide the time and resources for a "new" venture like ipv6. A side-wards statement by one firm's engineer that really seeded the idea for me was "But when we were given a few SIP phones it was all hands!". So if they have it (a v6 prefix), there seems to be some wriggle room for 'investigation'. And if that happens, it might just be the catalyst needed.
So after a look at the APNIC stats and seeing that there is a large percentage of the membership that don't have v6, and clearly haven't the incentives like yourself i thought "So why not remove _all_ allocation barriers", and maybe a few internal organisational barriers along the way..
The other point is that actions speak louder than words. I have seen and heard many orators speak until blue in the face about v6 and the folly of our inaction. It just doesn't seem to be working. :-(
I have a question, and feel free not to answer if it puts you on the spot, why did you apply for your allocation only a few months back, and not a few years?
Cheers Terry On 10/08/2009, at 4:21 PM, Tim Jones wrote:
Seems logical. I applied for a v6 allocation a couple of months back and it was deadsimple, you could not possibly make it any easier for someone who wants thespace.Surely an email from the Secretariat to each APNIC member's contact listtelling them how easy it is to get a v6 allocation would suffice?In fact if you sent it to a corporate contact with a bleak prediction of thefuture (climate change style), it would possibly achieve even more. Back to work. Cheers, Tim.