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Introduction
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IP address management is fundamental to ongoing Internet stability. 
Over the past decade the Internet has become fundamental to the world's
economy. The Internet is truly global. What happens in one part of the 
world affects the rest of the world. So changes in IP address 
management could affect billions of devices globally, irrespective of 
the country where they are located.

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The importance of an open environment
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The Internet has become what it is today because of the open, 
transparent, bottom-up process used to develop the Internet's protocols 
and management policies. Everyone is encouraged to participate.

RIR decision making has no barriers to participation. Anyone, including 
government, can have their say. This is made transparent by public 
archives of the decision making process, including mailing lists, 
video, and meeting transcripts.

Risks of introducing a parallel address management system

The operational stability, security, and efficiency of the Internet 
relies on a single consistent address management framework. The 
introduction of "competing" address management systems is not desired 
by network operators, and carries the strong risk of fragmenting 
address management policies, of fragmenting the Internet itself, and of 
compromising the Internet's security and stability.


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Equitable Distribution
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We note the equitable distribution of addresses is already in place in 
the current IPv6 management system and addresses are being deployed 
actively and effectively throughout the world at this time. Each RIR 
already has the same sized block to distribute to networks within their 
region.

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Actions
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1.     The proposal for a parallel address management system involves 
significant risks and therefore requires a clear problem statement, 
complete explanation of its details, and a thorough risk analysis of 
its consequence.  The NAv6 paper satisfies none of these requirements. 
Therefore, the NAv6 proposal, the paper itself cannot be considered as 
a substantial basis for discussion at the ITU IPv6 Group's work.

2.     Since concern about potential IPv6 exhaustion appears to be one 
of the fundamental concerns behind the ITU's studies into IPv6, we 
suggest that the ITU conduct a study on this.

3.     We ask the ITU's IPv6 Group follow the example of the Internet 
community and the IGF process and make its documents and records 
available publicly, so that all Internet stakeholders can participate 
in deliberations which could have global ramifications. We ask ITU 
Member States and Sector Members to recall the Tunis Agenda's call for 
a multi-stakeholder approach to Internet governance and call on the ITU 
to support the current multi-stakeholder system of address management.