[ppml] early adopter advantage

[Owen DeLong]

I don't think that PI space will help start the drive.  However, I do 
believe
that the lack of PI space is definitely preventing the adoption.

Owen


--On October 29, 2005 8:56:29 AM -0700 Benjamin Crawford 
<bicrawf at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I agree with Paul.  I think putting off a policy for
> PI space due to concerns on giving certain special
> advantages might be a little off based.  If allowing
> PI space will help start the drive towards adoption of
> IPv6, it make sense to try to make that available.  If
> a PI policy is put on the shelf while non-PI
> alternatives are developed, I think a lot of people
> continue propagating IPv4 and continue to push out the
> adoption of v6.
>
> -Ben Crawford
>
> --- Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com> wrote:
>
>> it's been spake several times today that one big
>> problem with the IPv6 PI
>> proposal was that it would not scale to the full
>> IPv6 population, and
>> therefore we ought to craft a policy that gave no
>> special advantages to
>> the early adopters.  MIT and Stanford and DEC and HP
>> all having "class A"
>> IPv6 networks whereas China can't get one, was cited
>> as an example of this.
>>
>> another more specific concern i heard today was "if
>> we allow PI IPv6 space
>> then there will be no incentive to develop non-PI
>> multihoming technology".
>>
>> i think both of these concerns are misplaced.  if we
>> want there to be an
>> IPv6 network economy we're going to have to give
>> folks what they need to
>> become early adopters, and if they're asking for PI
>> IPv6, then we have to
>> at least listen.  furthermore, the incentive to more
>> quickly develop non-PI
>> alternatives for IPv6 multihoming might actually be
>> higher if there's PI
>> space being granted, since it's *such* a bad idea in
>> the long run.  (this
>> assumes that the primary developers of non-PI IPv6
>> multihoming technology
>> will be vendors and registries rather than
>> end-users; this seems ~likely.)
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