Re: Question about past advice to RIRs

[bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com]

> Note that RFCs 1265, 1787, 2008, 2827, and 3704 are included for the  
> perspectives they present whether currently applicable or not. The  
> biggest problems seem to arise from RFCs 1881 and 1887; if they are  
> obsolete, I have an entire section that might disappear.
> 
> 
> 7.  References
> 
> 7.2.  Informative References
> 
>    [RFC1881]  Internet Architecture Board and Internet Engineering
>               Steering Group, "IPv6 Address Allocation Management",
>               RFC 1881, December 1995.
> 
>    [RFC1887]  Rekhter, Y. and T. Li, "An Architecture for IPv6 Unicast
>               Address Allocation", RFC 1887, December 1995.
> 

	note that both of these documents predate most of the RIR existance,
	when the IETF had a direct role in defining allocation policies/stratagies.

	in todays environment, i would consider both of these documents to be
	historical in nature, e.g. not applicable to the current RIR models.
	it is useful to note that RFC 1887 is labled "An Architecture..."
	which is a clear indication that the authors did not preclude other
	valid architectural models.

--bill