[Chapter-delegates] scarcity of IPv4 addresses

[Franck Martin]

What would you and others suggest ISOC should do to save the titanic? 

Franck Martin 
ICT Specialist 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond" <ocl at gih.com> 
To: "Chris Grundemann" <cgrundemann at gmail.com>, "John Schnizlein" <schnizlein at isoc.org> 
Cc: "Chapter Delegates" <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> 
Sent: Saturday, 25 October, 2008 9:36:47 PM (GMT+1100) Auto-Detected 
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] scarcity of IPv4 addresses 


Hello Chris, 

My replies inline below: 



If members of this list are interested, I can compile a fairly long list of reference material and documentation of the views of folks on both sides of this issue. To start with, this decision tree may be helpful to some who have not spent as much time thinking about this issue yet as others have: http://odin.chrisgrundemann.com/files/Do_I_Support_A_Liberalized_Transfer_Policy.jpg. 


Very interesting indeed! Thanks for your flowchart! 

However, have we not spent too much time on this, when our efforts should go towards promoting IPv6 migration, in any way possible (penalise IPv4, subsidise IPv6, promote v6 over v4 financially, restrict v4 allocation, reclaim v4 addresses and park/decommission them, etc.)? 

As Randy Bush said on the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List: 

"there is a serious brick wall looming in the headlights." 

and David Conrad also mentioned on the Global-v6 list at APNIC: 

"However, given the way RIR policy definition works, I don't believe 
there is sufficient time to establish the necessary consensus for any 
policy that would significantly affect the outcome to be instituted. 
As I mentioned to someone privately, the Titanic is too big and moving 
too fast to avoid the iceberg..." 

In my opinion, we are wasting too much time on everything else. 

Would ISOC be able to save the Titanic? Would it want to? 

O. 

-- 
Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond, Ph.D 
Global Information Highway Ltd 
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html 

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