[6bone] winding down and returns?

[Bob Fink]

Tim,

At 11:57 AM 12/18/2003 +0000, Tim Chown wrote:
>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.

As for winding down pTLA allocations, they are done wound down :-)

As for bugging folk to return allocations that are not in use at all, does 
it really matter at this stage?

If there are "in-use" pTLAs that are really badly managed/operated to the 
detriment of the greater whole, that's another story.

If there is some general agreement on the problem and what to do about it, 
I am willing to help, but would like to hear a comment or two.


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

If this is becoming the trend, doesn't it make most uses of the 6bone 
irrelevant? Maybe it would be better to create (and keep current) a list of 
really good pTLAs, even establishing some meaningful standards for what 
that means, that would encourage production prefix holders to peer with them?


Thanks,

Bob