Re: IPv6 Policy Proposal for LACNIC Region

Brian and all,

Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Marcelo,...
>
> marcelo bagnulo wrote:
> >
> > Hi Brian,
> >
> > [...]
> > > >
> > > > Being overly restrictive in the IPv6 allocation policy is a bad signal -
> > > > there is enough address space, and the global routing table will easily
> > > > cope with 2000 prefixes per region - we should try to make people
> > > > *accept* IPv6, not hinder its deployment based on some unreasonable
> > > > fears.
> > >
> > > Gert is correct. Indeed the LACNIC draft contains one very disturbing
> > > phrase in this respect:
> > >
> > > >> LACNIC shall encourage the use of private resources (whenever
> > > possible),
> > > >> both for IPv4 RFC 1918 and IPv6 addresses as well as for ASN
> > > (64512-65535).
> > >
> > > This isn't the place for a polemic about RFC 1918 or ASNs. But we should
> > > certainly not encourage the use of "private resources" for IPv6 addresses.
> > > Right now there are no private resources (site locals are being
> > > deprecated,
> > > and their replacement is not yet agreed), and we need to do everything
> > > to discourage barriers in IPv6. I suggest deleting the reference to IPv6
> > > in this sentence.
> > >
> >
> > Agreed, but i think you are talking about the exprimental allocation policy
> > proposal and not about the IPv6 policy proposal, right?.
>
> ...I just clicked on the link supplied... but you're correct. However,
> with site locals being deprecated, I think it is wrong to encourage
> people to use them even for experiments.

  Why?

>
>
>    Brian
>
> > Regards, marcelo
> >
> > > Regards
> > >    Brian
> > >
> > > P.S. I've deleted the CC to the ICANN Board. I suppose it was put there
> > > by "Jeff Williams." Whoever plays "Jeff Williams" on the Internet seems
> > > to enjoy cross posting to irrelevant lists.
>
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