[address-policy-wg] 2014-04 New Policy Proposal (Relaxing IPv6 Requirement for Receiving Space from the Final /8)

* Sander Steffann

> I think at the time we just didn't even consider LIRs that didn't
> want/need IPv6 PA space.

Right. But the summary of the proposal identifies the *actual* problem here:

  «In order to qualify [for IPv6 PA], they need to request an IPv6
  allocation and subsequently return their existing PI assignment
  (per ripe-589 section 7.1)»

If that PI assignment is already in use, a requirement to renumber and
return it might be a showstopper for getting PA space. Renumbering is
*hard* - it is *a lot* of work.

So while I don't think 2014-04 is harmful in any way and I don't have
any objections to it, I do find it quite puzzling that it does not try
to fix the actual problem in ripe-589 section 7.1 - which, if 2014-04
were to pass, would remain just as «downright deleterious to IPv6
adoption» as before.

Tore