Re: Heads up (NAT444 & IESG, IANA, ARIN...)

John Curran <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.v6ops,gmane.ietf.ops
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2010-11-09 17:09, David Conrad wrote:
>> I'm confused, but that may be because of lack of information.
>> 
>> Ignoring for the time being the advisability of doing this, if we're talking about a new pseudo-RFC 1918 block, why is it going to a regional registry?  Presumably its use would be global.  Shouldn't it be a direct allocation by IANA as a result of IETF action?
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_run

Not likely to happen.

While ARIN does stand by to assist if relevant, we would be unlikely to consider the matter without prior guidance from the IESG and IANA directing such (since allocation of specialized technical space is the realm of the IETF & IANA...)

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN




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