On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 6:30 AM Lee Howard <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not clear to me that ARIN can or should consider an extra-terrestrial > policy without support from the other RIRs.
Hi Lee, Respectfully, ARIN can and should _consider_ anything germane to number policy that a member of the community brings before it. Bottom-up, right? Whether ARIN ultimately acts is a question that belongs at the other end of the resulting discussions. Perhaps coordination with other RIRs can wait until there is more information about which, if any, of the registries _want_ to be part of the TIPTOP effort? Figure out who wants a seat at the table before considering who should have one. > In other words, I think this should be discussed as a global policy proposal, > shepherded by the NRO NC. It didn't work well for IPv6. The coordinated policy produced was an impediment to IPv6 uptake for years until the registries individually reshaped it to meet their respective communities' needs. ARIN went the other way with inter-RIR transfers -- established its own policy instead of attempting a global policy. That wasn't perfect either, but on the whole I'd say it worked out a lot better. > > Finally, you'd specify that implementation would pend a request from > > IANA pursuant to publication of the relevant TIPTOP RFC. > > I'm pretty sure that RFC7020, and the ASO MoU, mean that requests > for address allocations from from the ASO. The IETF can establish > new protocol registries and request protocol numbers, but addresses > are in the RIR system. I believe the RFC template still says "IANA considerations" not "ASO considerations" but I'll defer to folks with greater expertise than I. Regards, Bill _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
