On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM, Lee Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 02:28:03 PM GMT-3, William Herrin <bill@ > herrin.us> wrote: > > > > Taking my Bill Herrin hat off and putting my Advisory Council hat on: > > > If you want to achieve something like this at ARIN, at some point you > > would write and submit a number policy proposal which does three > > things: > > It is not clear to me that ARIN can or should consider an > extra-terrestrial policy without support from the other RIRs. > > In other words, I think this should be discussed as a global policy > proposal, shepherded by the NRO NC. > +lots. IMO one of the RIR's could administer the ranges (or provide a backed to a new RIR), but the policy decisions and proposals are global in nature… W > > 1. Establishes criteria in the ARIN NRPM where IP addresses deployed > > in outer space are considered in use for the purpose of ARIN > > determining an organization's use and qualification. > > > 2. Establishes pools of IPv4 addresses reserved for each of the > > specific celestial bodies, and the quantity reserved for each. > > IPv4? How much could possibly be reserved? > > > 3. Establishes pools of IPv6 addresses reserved for each of the > > specific celestial bodies, and the quantity reserved for each. > > I am concerned that this scope is limited to the solar system. > Further, it is not clear to me that every "celestial body" (some of the > examples, like the lagrange points or asteroid belt, aren't even bodies) > needs the same allocation. Further, are moons numbered from their parent > planet, or from separate allocations? As proposed, Earth's moon gets as > much address space as L3 and as Pluto, but I don't know what Europa and > Deimos get. > > > > 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. > > IMHO, YMMV, > > Lee > > _______________________________________________ > 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. >
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