[sig-policy] Discussions on IPv4 exhaustion at upcoming ARIN XIX meeting

["Dong Yan" <dongyan@cnnic.cn>]

Dear Sig members

As you may be aware, the "prop-046: IPv4 countdown policy proposal" 
has been submitted to the ARIN community for discussion at the upcoming 
ARIN meeting in Puerto Rico. This is an update to say that the proposal 
will be discussed on Tuesday, 24 April 2007. You can find the day's 
agenda at:

     http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XIX/tuesday.html

Also, issues related to the exhaustion of the free IPv4 address pool
will also be discussed in a couple of panels at the meeting. In
particular, the following sessions may be of interest:

    - Legacy address panel

         Monday, 23 April 2007
         http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XIX/legacy_panel.html

    - IPv4 discussion panel

         Tuesday, 24 April 2007
         http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XIX/ipv4_panel.html

If you are interested in viewing the webcast of any of these sessions,
see:

     http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XIX/webcast.html

Since the proposal was submitted to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List,
there has been a lot of discussion about the issues the proposal raised.
Jim Weyand recently summarised the alternative policy options that have
been discussed on the list. In trying to move forward discussions on
IPv4 exhaustion in the APNIC region, I encourage you to take a minute
to read his short summary at:

     http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/ppml/2007-March/006469.html

What do you think of the ideas raised? Do you support any of the ideas
raised?

You can track the progress of the proposal in the ARIN region at:

     2007-12 IPv4 Countdown Policy Proposal
     http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2007_12.html



Best regards,

Dong Yan