[6bone] winding down and returns?

[Tim Chown]

Thanks Bob.

The next step is then to wind down the 6bone allocations, and perhaps
encourage formal returns?  It may be that 50% of current holders are
inactive due to commercial allocations, but have not bothered to "hand in"
pTLAs as there's isn't a process as such.

Some networks already don't accept 6bone prefixes.  So their usefulness
is already becoming more limited.

Tim

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:51:44PM -0800, Bob Fink wrote:
> 6bone Folk,
> 
> I have denied the CTN1 pTLA request as of today. I do wish Marc Gomez and 
> CTN1 well in providing IPv6 transport to the customers of CTN1, and do hope 
> Marc will pursue a production prefix from RIPE.
> 
> I did not deny this request lightly, and did ask various follow up 
> questions. I remained concerned about the inability to even reach the CTN1 
> web site or find a AAAA record in its DNS until today (or at least 
> intermittently so). In my opinion it is unlikely that CTN1 really provided 
> all the required services for the full 3 month period required. If we 
> weren't at the end of 6bone prefix allocation, I would have encouraged Marc 
> to wait a little longer until he clearly established operational experience 
> in IPv6 for CTN1 sufficient to qualify for a pTLA. Alas, we are out of time 
> and no more 6bone pTLA prefixes will be allocated.
> 
> Regardless of the cost to acquire production prefixes from the RIRs, 
> clearly it isn't all that hard as there are almost 500 prefixes allocated 
> now, more than half (274) of which come from RIPE. Compare this to the 
> current 123 6bone pTLA prefixes allocated and it is clear that the time for 
> an early experimental method to distribute IPv6 addresses is past.
> 
> I want to thank everyone who has participated in this pTLA review, on both 
> sides, for your comments.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bob Fink
> 
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