Good afternoon,
I have just come from the presentation of this statement by Carlos on  
behalf of ALAC, to the ASO... (please note I have not included here  
the draft text as I was off the email grid when it was circulated to  
lists on Monday but if it did not go to both lists then I implore  
someone to rectify that I now have read on local network and send via  
my mail server as the only option :-(

Some *brief points* that will be further discussed in ALAC meetings  
should be noted by all of you interested in this matter of v4 -> v6...

Firstly our presentation was most warmly and generously received, and  
our thanks go to Carlos Aguirre for both his presentation and his work  
in preparing for this matter when Izumi (our normal lead in this  
topic) was unable to stay in LA for this meeting...

It is my firm belief that as a result of his representation to the ASO  
meeting,  we have established a clear profile as a 'party of interest'  
which needs to be involved with the policy deliberation processes that  
occurs in this group (not only in the important issue of IPv4  
distribution) but also any other matters that effect us as the end  
user (i.e. consumers of the services) that the addressing  
infrastructure provides for...

Secondly several questions were asked, and comments made, after the  
presentation...

Carlos will fully outline these in his report back to ALAC on this  
meeting, but a few excellent suggestions regarding a change of the  
terms used in our draft document were made, and should be noted by the  
At-Large Community, as we will desire YOUR input on these particular  
points, as we do our edit...

Specifically these were the use of 'migration'  this term has certain  
contextual / interpretation issues and it is advised that we should  
replace it in our documentation with the term "transition", and the  
very valid point that the use of the term "black-market" needs  
replacing with a nomenclature that indicates that it is an undesirable  
secondary market... the potential of what does the word 'hype' means  
in the draft was pre-emptively dealt with by Carlos in his annotation  
to that section and also requires attention.

Also ARIN have kindly supplied us with access to some of their plain  
language summary of issues texts which will greatly enhance our own  
outreach efforts in our regions and local environments and *most  
importantly* have already done extensive translation pieces of this  
text which we can use AND seem willing to explore possible assistance  
to us in translation to language not currently addressed in their  
document repository.

Finally this is a clear invitation (if not mandated requirement) for  
us to be actively involved in the policy development *particularly* at  
the policy development points in the community input into the regional  
registry processes this constituency uses... And as they use a  
regional based system which mirrors our own interaction and mutual  
exchange of idea points do not need to be "created" they do however  
need to be locally actioned.

And I know I personally look forward to our future work together in  
matters of mutual interest.

Kindest regards,

Cheryl Langdon-Orr (CLO)

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