Meeting on IPv6 Address Allocation Policy

[Akira Kato]

I sent the pre-announcement attached below in Mar 07 afternoon. I
got positive responses from at least two Regional Registries and I
would like to confirm the meeting.

The purpose of the meeting is *not* to bash the registries but to
- Demonstrate how we are requiring IPv6 address space,
- Understand the current situation of each Regional Registry,
- Find out what kind of help from IPv6 community to the registries
  is needed to expedite the allocation process,
- so on.

Note that we will only have only 1 hour slot. So please understand
that we can not discuss the issues in detail. Also please read the
IPv6 Address Allocation Policy in advance.

See you soon in Minneapolis!

-- Akira Kato, WIDE Project

> Folks,
> 
> The Regional Registries (ARIN, RIPE/NCC, APNIC) is about to define the
> IPv6 address allocation policy. Their current draft may be referred
> from your regional registries. In the case of APNIC, you can get
> through the URL below:
> 	http://www.apnic.net/ipv6draft.html
> 
> The registries held a meeting to discuss the guidelines last week in
> Singapore (in conjunction with Apricot'99) and some IPv6 people have
> been invited to the meeting. Althrough I was not able to attend it,
> a quick report from my colleague said that there was some discussion
> on the current bootstrap condition which requires an IPv6 (s)TLA
> applicant should have at least 100 non-dialup customers (corresponding
> to the 8th paragraph of 4.1.1 in the case of APNIC draft).
> 
> One of the conclusion of the meeting was to hold a continuous
> discussion during the Minnepolis IETF meeting. Current candidate
> timeslot is just after the first NGtrans session is over (May 16 (TUE)
> 11:30 -- 12:30, in Room Salon G).
> 
> Please note that the above schedule is tentative and may be changed or
> even entirely cancelled. Those who are interested to participate it,
> please stay tuned.
> 
> -- Akira Kato, WIDE Project