[ppml] Just say *NO* to PI space -- or how to make it lessdestructive

[william(at)elan.net]

Geoff, why are you trying to make the explanation that complex?

Its all very simple - if ISPs in other (non-ARIN) regions do not like
ARIN's policy on PI allocations, those ISPs will filter these PI blocks
and the result is that those who got the block would not be able to
communicate with majority of IPv6 network (north america share of ipv6
is rather small) and so blocks would be mostly useless...

So really we have no choice, if you want IPv6 PI assignments it
can not be just North America's decision - you have to convince rest
of the world that this is ok and should be accepted practice or
at least tried out.

[Note: By ISP above I actually mean network in general not necessarily
        commercial intenet service provider]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Geoff Huston wrote:

> At 05:12 AM 21/04/2006, Jason Schiller (schiller at uu.net) wrote:
>> The problem is the routing economy as Geoff points out...
>
>
> And just to be clear - the problem with the routing economy is that there
> is no routing economy.
>
>  When there is no commonly  accepted expression of constraint on
> consumption of a common good (in this case routing slots) then
> over-consumption is a highly likely outcome, which in turn tends to lead to
> destruction of the good (at this point it is traditional to refer to the
> tragedy of the commons). What we all are searching for here is the
> appropriate level of expression of constraint through address allocation
> policies. So far, its pretty clear that there is a wide diversity of
> opinion as to what 'appropriate' may be in this context.
>
>     Geoff
>
>
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