[soac-newgtldapsup-wg] v6 non-universality (was: Comments On Draft text)

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Michele,

I didn't write, nor have I read, the text you are commenting on.

However, the ISPCP Constituency Comment did recognize that v6 is
not universally available. They did not appear to offer the means
to work around that, other than an implicit limitation that this
question to you addresses.

You wrote:

> There should NOT be an IPv6 exemption for "qualified" applicants.

Could you share with me your impression of the consequence of there
being a requirement in the DAG, manditory at the point of transition
to delegation?

My impression is that if an applicant's available infrastucture is
not v6 provisioned earlier than one year after Staff's offer to
contract that the offer will expire.

Now I could be mistaken, but this appears to limit the physical
venue of registry backend siting to those with hard provisioning
dates prior to 1Q14.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything, but if we assume,
just for the purposes of discussion, that some place, Nairobi
perhaps, isn't currently scheduled by any one, let alone two,
path independent v6 transit providers, but Cape Town is, that
applications which propose Nairobi as an operations venue be
either (a) determined not to be qualified for support, or (b)
determined to be qualified for support, with the prior knowledge
that ICANN legal staff will at a later date, approximately 1Q14,
allow the offer to enter into contract expire?

Do you propose outcome (a) or outcome (b) or is there some other
outcome(s) which you are proposing?

For comparision, an identical application proposing Cape Town
as its operational venue, which is v6 provisioned, would both
be currently qualified and prospectively qualified, unless for
some reason v6 service is withdrawn by the v6 transit providers
currently provisioning Cape Town.

If you perceive anything in this question insulting or belittling
or deliberately obscure or written for some purpose other than
understanding what you think v6-mandatory-to-contract-at-delegation
means in practice, please ignore this note.

Eric