new IPv6 policy framework

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:49:46PM +0000, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:

Hey Mir,

> I agree with you that there will probably be a long transition
> period. The assumption however is that a network will at some stage be
> fully migrated to IPv6 and the IPv4 addresses will not be needed
> anymore. 

Sure. No-one disputes this. I suspect that it was only the lack of a 
timeframe which had me worried. (But that is what community discussion
will provide, hopefully...)
 
> Therefore we propose to use a policy that treats all
> organisations equally.  The RIRs cannot decide who is allowed to have
> a top level IPv6 allocation. The ISPs themselves have much better
> mechanisms to address routing table growth.

Ok. Sounds good to me!

Niall

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