[address-policy-wg] 2014-04 new radical suggestions

Hi,

While we were formulating the proposal 2014-04, we came up with a 
handful of other more radical alternatives too. We decided to leave them 
out of the initial proposal text, because of their controversial nature. 
We decided to instead present them to the discussion on the mailing 
list, which I'm doing now:

OTHER RIRS

The current policy for final /8 IPv4 assignments requires that the IPv6 
address space is assigned by RIPE NCC. Assignments by other RIRs aren't 
accepted. Proposal 2014-04 does not change this oversight.

I can see one snag, if IPv6 assignments from other RIRs were accepted: 
multi-national corporations would hoard "an automatic /22" from every 
RIR slightly more easily than the current policy allows. In that case I 
would also add policy text that would make sure that if the applicant 
already has a final /8 IPv4 assignment from some other RIR, they can't 
get one from RIPE.

PROMOTE IPv6 USAGE

Gert Doering wrote:
> Historically it was put in there as an encouragement for "last /8" LIRs
> to "do something with IPv6"...

The something that the current policy encourages LIRs to do with IPv6:

  * register a block and forget about it

To really promote IPv6 adoption, why not require final /8 applicants to 
demonstrate their IPv6 capability before being given the IPv4 address 
block? The simplest way I came up with would be to create a service 
mailbox under an IPv6 only sub-domain (e.g. hostmaster at v6only.ripe.net) 
and require that the applicants complete some steps of their process 
with this mailbox.

This would verify that the applicant has access to IPv6 capable:
   * routing
   * DNS resolvers
   * authoritative DNS
   * SMTP servers

... and is not afraid to use them!

Well, of course the applicant could be using someone else's mail system 
to complete those steps. I'm not sure if that matters.

When the original policy was written, I guess the community felt that 
the global routing system was not ripe enough for these requirements. I 
would argue that the world should be ready now! There's only one RIR 
left that has more than 16 million IPv4 addresses in their free pool.


There, that's two provocative radical suggestions for you, from

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