On 9/23/11 14:41 , Benson Schliesser wrote: > Hi, Brian. > > On 9/23/11 3:40 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 2011-09-23 17:21, Benson Schliesser wrote: >> >>> However, I would like to make sure we don't lose sight of the need >>> for some urgency with draft-weil. >> >> I'm a little puzzled by the claim of urgency; I remember hearing in >> July 2008 that doom was imminent if this was not done immediately. >> >> I thought that the urgent issue was deploying IPv6. > > I agree; no doubt, deploying IPv6 is urgent. But, unfortunately, operators > often face multiple urgent issues at the same time. > > In any case, the urgency that I referred to is a reflection of advice from > various ARIN leaders. Obviously, there is a future date at which ARIN will > be unable to donate the /10 prefix because of IPv4 inventory exhaustion. A prefix is not donated because they are not property of arin. Directing the allocation of a prefix through a standards action is what is in the table. > More near-term is the prospect that operators will deploy CGN using global > unicast addresses. This might have negative repercussions for the operator > and/or their users, along the lines of scope detection etc. All CGN deployments have negative repurcussions for the users, it's the job of the operators to decide how to minimize those based on their specific circumstances. any newly assigned prefix will be treated as global unicast space by existing cpe (and hosts) so in the near term that doesn't sound like a substative distinction. the question of where it's RFC1918 (as it for the verizon 4G modem I'm sending this over) or a global unicastish prefix seems germain. > It definitely > has negative repercussions for the rate at which RIR inventories are > exhausted. > > In other words, the sooner we act, the more benefit this reservation will > have. That doesn't imply that we have so little time we are unable to > address the issues raised by the IESG. But we certainly don't have the sort > of time that many drafts commonly require, per the stats at > http://www.arkko.com/tools/lifecyclestats.html for example. > > Cheers, > -Benson > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf