[6bone] notice of intent to reclaim unused pTLAs, comment period closes 17 January 2003

[Bob Fink]

Bill,

At 06:27 PM 1/4/2003 -0800, Bill Manning wrote:
>...
>% By the way, what did you mean when you say "other choices available"?
>% Thanks,
>
>         cleaning up the 6bone delegations is a noble and worthwhile
>         effort, however the effect of just "abandoning in place"
>         is almost simpler.  If it was up to me, I'd stop doing delegations
>         in the 3ffe:: space for the next 10 years. Then set up an
>         periodic/quarterly "check", perhaps with the normal cidr reports 
> to see
>         which prefixes are still being used/announced.  Encourage the
>         RIRs to "remind" requestors of IPv6 space that they should
>         withdraw 3ffe:: entries when the 2001:: entries are being used.
>         Follow up in four/five years and fine out why there are still 3ffe::
>         prefixes in use.
>
>         Persuade those that hold 3ffe:: space to consider moving the
>         3ffe:: addresses to only those delegations/assignments that reflect
>         IPv6 tunnels over IPv4 infrastructure. (a pet project of mine)
>
>         wrt other choices, here are a couple:
>
>                 2002:: space
>                 "glbly unique" site locals
>                 link-local
>                 RIR - 2001:: space
>
>
>         It is my humble opinon that its not worth the amount of effort that
>         is being spent to kill off folk using 3ffe:: space. That energy could
>         be better spent in other ways.

Thanks for your comments.


Bob