[apnic-talk] Re IPv6 ASSIGNMENT AND ALLOCATION POLICY DOCUMENT (3rd draf
Below are comments received on the 15th Feb from the IAB on the
draft "IPv6 Assignment and Allocation Policy Document".
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Dear colleagues,
Re IPv6 ASSIGNMENT AND ALLOCATION POLICY DOCUMENT (3rd draft)
The IAB has been looking at this draft and here are our comments
(which are not confidential in any way).
It's very good to see the registries working actively on this
important topic. However there are two points of concern about
the current version, one political and one technical.
The political one is easy to fix. Referring to ICANN is contentious
in this context, and referring to IANA is not contentious.
So please replace all reference to ICANN by IANA. It doesn't
change anything but it will reduce argument.
The technical one is more tricky. Basically the draft errs too
much on the side of address conservation. While it is important
to be prudent and to avoid creating an IPv6 toxic waste dump,
we do have a lot more freedom than with IPv4. The draft doesn't
take full advantage of this, with the paradoxical effect that
aggregation is harmed and unnecessary renumbering is forced.
We can afford to be more generous with subTLA space and less
restrictive with slow start. The detailed comments below almost
all relate to this point.
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