At 09:10 19-08-2011, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
the following document:
- 'IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space'
<draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt> as an Informational
RFC
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org mailing lists by 2011-09-16. Exceptionally, comments
may be
Making such an allocation through a document which is not intended
for the Standards Track is highly unusual. Last year I raised a
concern in a non-IETF mailing list about making IPv4 allocations
using "RFC required" as there will be more economic pressure for
process end-run as the world gets to the odds and ends of IPv4
addresses. I don't see any text that fits under protocol assignment
(see RFC 2860) in draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03. In
fact, the Security Considerations section mentions that the "memo
does not define any protocol".
The draft only mentions an applicability and justification for Shared
Transition Space and references
draft-bdgks-arin-shared-transition-space-00. While the policy fits
under RIR community processes, it does not fit under allocations made
for technical specifications. Publishing this document on the
grounds that the ARIN wants it is not a good enough reason. Will
ARIN be "donating" the /10 IPv4 address space to IANA for it to make
this allocation?
The draft mentions that:
"Network equipment manufacturers MUST NOT use the
assigned block in default or example device configurations."
As the IPv4 address block is not specified in the document, the above
requirement cannot be followed. The expectation that the IPv4
address block will only be used by Infrastructure Providers is
optimistic. RFC 5735 covers Special Use IPv4 Addresses. This
document should update the BCP.
A proposal similar to this one was discussed in a V6OPS meeting in
Asia. If my reading is correct, it did not gain consensus. The
proposal gets discussed in North America in
OPSAWG and it gains consensus. BTW, this draft contains only 220
lines, including boilerplate and it has five authors.
Regards,
-sm
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