[CWN-Summit] 2008-3 Needs Your Support!

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi everyone,

Just to reiterate Josh's plea -- we've been working on this proposal since 2005
and it may all come down to the next few weeks.  An e-mail in support of
Proposal 2008-3 sent to arin-ppml at arin.net can help make this a reality.  It'll
only take a few minutes to voice your support for the allocation of IPv6 space
to community networks.

Please take a moment to draft a quick e-mail.

Thanks,

--Sascha

P.S.  IS4CWN 2010 is coming soon -- stay tuned!

Joshua King wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> For quite a while now, Acorn Active Media Foundation has been pursuing a
> IPv6 addressing policy change at the American Registry of Internet
> Numbers (ARIN). This policy proposal (numbered 2008-3) is to establish
> Community Networks as entities which can receive IPv6 address
> allocations. This policy was pursued for a few reasons:
> 
> 1. To establish a niche for Community Networks to apply. When Acorn
> initially applied for an allocation, they didn't know what to do with
> us. It can be difficult for a disaggregated network to demonstrate the
> necessary subscribers to qualify as LIR (a Local Internet Registry,
> usually an ISP).
> 2. To allow Community Networks to future-proof their networks. Not many
> upstream providers currently support IPv6.
> 3. To simplify network architecture. IPv6 mitigates the need for NAT or
> even DHCP, and can support large single-subnet clouds without collision.
> 4. For Community Networks to experiment with unique mobile addressing
> between networks.
> 5. To try and establish lower fees. Although the policy manual can't
> contain anything about fees (fees are decided by a separate process),
> this gives something for the reduced fees to be applied to.
> 
> And last and I think most importantly:
> 
> 6. This policy bucks the trend of just large ISPs having address
> allocations. There isn't any reason that there shouldn't be an
> allocation available for community networks, because IPv6 addresses are
> plentiful. This is the stage where, if we don't want the IPv4 situation
> of a few large institutions having most of the address space, we should
> carve out a niche for Community Networks to have their own spot on the
> Internet.
> 
> So if you think this is a good idea, please send a message to the ARIN
> Policy Proposal Mailinglist voicing your support. The proposal has gone
> into an comment period before it is decided on by the ARIN Advisory
> Committee in a couple weeks, so this is the time for the people in ARIN
> to be reassured that there are actual Community Networks out there who
> think this is a good idea. It's a small step, but may be a useful one
> for the greater community of Community Networks. Please forward this
> message on to anyone you think might be interested. Time is of the essence!
> 
> ARIN PPML Contact Address: arin-ppml at arin.net <mailto:arin-ppml at arin.net>
> PPML Archives: http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/
> 
> Text of 2008-3: https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2008_3.html
> 
> -- 
> Josh King
> --
> "I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal,
> but because there is no such thing as a final goal." -Rudolf Rocker
> 
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