Transfer of 6bone Address Management Responsibilities to RIRs, David Kessens, Nokia

Synopsis

This document proposes that the 6bone address management responsibilities are 
transferred to the RIRs. An abstract from the proposal document is below.

The 6bone was established in 1996 by the IETF as an IPv6 Testbed network to 
enable various IPv6 testing as well as to assist in the transitioning of IPv6 
into the Internet. 

It operates under the IPv6 address allocation 3FFE::/16 from RFC 2471. 
As IPv6 is beginning its production deployment it is appropriate to plan for 
the phaseout of the 6bone. This note establishes a plan for a multi-year 
phaseout of the 6bone and its address allocation on the assumption that the IETF 
is the appropriate place to determine this.