On Fri, 20 Feb 2026, 3:16 am John Curran, <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:

Gert -
Yes, the “IPv4” qualifier was unnecessary and likely not relevant; instead read that as -

“So general purpose Internet number resource address blocks are issued to RIRs accordingly global number resource policy, and then there’s some “regional" policy regarding from the block to the individual ISPs/LIPs.”

I.e, the question remains as to why a distinct RIR region is necessary here, rather than (as Randy said) just having the involved operators go to any RIR and obtain an appropriately sized IPv6 allocation.

/John

> On Feb 20, 2026, at 3:36 AM, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 10:26:18PM +0000, John Curran wrote:
>> So general purpose IPv4 address blocks are issued to RIRs [..]
>
> why would anyone want to build this with IPv4?
>
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