[6bone] proposal for transfer of 6bone address management responsibilities to RIRs

[Francis Dupont]

 In your previous mail you wrote:

   As mentioned previously, and presented at the Yokohama IETF 6bone meeting, 
   I have been discussing with the management of the three Regional Internet 
   Registries (APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE) the transfer of 6bone 3FFE::/16 address 
   space management to the RIRs.

=> IMHO this is not a good idea because this will put the whole control
of address allocation in few hands.
   
   c)	In order to receive 6bone address services from an RIR as described 
   here, each 6bone member must "join" that RIR, that is, enter into the 
   appropriate membership or services agreement with the RIR.
   
=> I strongly object to this if the "join" can't be done for a price
of zero (of course in this case RIRs will complain :-).

   d)	RIR fees will be waived for 6bone address services provided by RIRs to 
   6bone members (but not for other services 6bone members may require), until 
   1 year after this agreement starts.  After this time each RIR may charge an 
   administration fee to cover each allocation made.  This fee simply covers 
   registration and maintenance, rather than the full allocation process for 
   standard RIR members. This administration fee should be as low as possible 
   as these requests do not have to undergo the same evaluation process as 
   those requested in the normal policy environment.
   
=> one of the interest of IPv6 is to finish with this system of fees for
addresses. I am afraid that the current RIR monopoly will give at the end
something even nastier than ICANN.

Regards

Francis.Dupont@enst-bretagne.fr