RE: Last Call: <draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt> (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC

[SM <[e-mail]>]

At 14:10 22-09-2011, George, Wes wrote:
>Additionally, if we're talking about pushing draft-weil back for 
>that much analysis, we're now talking about a non-trivial delay, and 
>in that case it may make sense to simply put the two drafts back 
>together since weil was supposed to go through quickly as a minimal 
>draft with bdgks being the one that the community spent more time on 
>to ensure completeness and consensus.

The write-up mentions that this important draft should be progressed 
in a timely manner.  I don't know what gave a sense of this draft 
going through quickly.  The document got six DISCUSSes.  The Last 
Call comments were not addressed.

The entire issue is, in my opinion, due to a lack of planning by 
vendors of Internet 
services.  draft-bdgks-arin-shared-transition-space-03 represents the 
consensus of the ARIN region only.  It is being used as a basis to 
ask the IAB, through the IETF, to perform a protocol assignment.  It 
would set a bad precedent if such an assignment is made without 
careful analysis.  It would be better if the IETF spares itself the 
embarassment given that the IANA Contract is a hot topic.

I suggest that ARIN publishes its policy through the Independent 
Stream and documents the IPv4 addresses that will be used for 
so-called shared transition space.

Regards,
-sm