ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space

Thu Apr 8 21:32:37 UTC 2010

> 1) Justify why we need a heavy bureaucracy such as ARIN for IPv6
>   numbering resources,

Because the members of ARIN (and the other four RIRs) want it that way.
And because nobody has yet made a serious proposal to ICANN that
would replace ARIN.

> 2) Tell me why something like the old pre-depletion pre-ARIN model
>   of InterNIC and just handing out prefixes with substantially less
>   paper-pushing wouldn't result in a cheaper-to-run RIR.

Because the ARIN members, who pay most of ARIN's fees, are not
complaining about the level of those fees. This means that they
think the fees are cheap enough, or else they would demand that
the fees be changed. All ARIN fees are set by the ARIN members.

--Michael Dillon
P.S. When you send your proposal to ICANN, please post a notice
here on the NANOG list so that we can all go have a look at it.