Re: [GLOBAL-V6] New draft available: IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Global Policy

[Niall Richard Murphy <niallm-globalv6@enigma.ie>]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:38:46AM -0700, Alec H. Peterson wrote:

Alec, all,

> The issue that I and many other people on the ARIN AC continue to come back 
> to is that this sounds a lot like the logic that was used when deciding how 
> to originally allocate IPv4 address space.

Nobody wants to be the "640k is enough for anybody" advocate, and you're
quite right to suggest that if we get this wrong, there will be unfortunate
consequences for everyone.

However, there is clearly a tension between the urgent requirement that some
people have /today/, /now/, for address space, and the policy convergence of
checks and balances that the RIRs would like to see. With all due respect,
and I have a lot of respect for the RIR people, we have been talking about 
IPv6 policies for years, and working together across continents is difficult.

Surely we should not be concentrating so ferociously on not getting it 
wrong, and instead concentrate on refining towards the right? 
 
Niall

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