<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 26, 2011, at 2:45 AM, Adiel Akplogan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2011-11-26, at 10:28 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Courier; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">I believe ARIN staff uses IPv4 applications from organizations that do not have IPv6 as an<br>opportunity for outreach. Doing so does not require force-feeding IPv6 blocks to people that<br>are not going to use them.</span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Currently AfriNIC hostmasters informally use every new IPv4 requests </div><div>to raise awareness on IPv6 by gently asking the requestor if they </div><div>would like at the same time to request IPv6? If they have a plan </div><div>they request it, if they don't yet have a plan of they generally just </div><div>decline the offer and only get their IPv4 prefix. Some of them do come </div><div>back few months letter with an IPv6 request.</div><div><br></div><div>So using the opportunity of IPv4 request to promote IPv6 is something </div><div>that we consider as part of our "responsibility" and outreach campaign, </div><div>but what we can not do right now is to to make it a condition for IPv4 </div><div>or force it upon LIR. To be able to do so, we will clearly need to </div><div>define a policy for that.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>- a.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>As I have said, I think such a policy and such a practice would be ill advised at best.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div></body></html>