[soac-newgtldapsup-wg] On the v6 requirement

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colleagues,

Yesterday I was able to obtain support from ARIN for new gTLD 
operators to be able to receive post-exhaustion provider independent 
address space from the reserve proposed for Criticial Infrastructure (CI).
While this does not assist any new gTLD operator demonstrate the v6 
requirement that is in the DAG, it reduces the possible impulse for 
the contractual requirement, which is imposed as early as when the 
application is submitted (and "frozen"), or as late as the transition 
to delegation, if that impulse is that new gTLD registries must be 
able to operate in a post-v4-exhaustion environment.
Whether the v6 requirement is relaxed from an unconditional 
requirement, or made conditional upon the purpose of the applicant and 
therefore the presumed address capability of the registrars, 
registrants, and name-to-address resolving users, the access to CI 
reserved resources is something that needs-qualified applicants will 
benefit by, and not have to purchase provider independent v4 address 
assets in the transfer market, or settle for provider dependent v4 
address assets as a tenant of a hosting operator, registry technical 
services provider, or competitor.
One more tool in the assistance toolkit. Post-v4-exhaustion PI blocks 
reserved for CI.
The proposal is ARIN-prop-123. Reserved Pool for Critical Infrastructure.

Next, making the same request to the other regional registries -- 
RIPE, APNIC, AfriNIC, LACNIC.
Eric