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

[Geoff Huston]

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