[ppml] Policy Proposal 2005-1: Provider-independent IPv6

[Tony Li]

> >  That means if by 2011 there is wide spread adoption of IPv6 the
> > router will need to support 1.3M routes.
> 
> And YOU are being short-sighted if you think that 
> ARIN policy cannot adapt itself to changing situations
> before 2011. During that timespan of approximately
> 5 years, ARIN could easily manage revision of the 
> IPv6 PI policy 3 times, if that is needed in order
> to respond to new developments.



Supposed that we approve 2005-1.  If things take off, we could then
deploy several hundred thousand routes (on the order of the v4 network
today), and then we try to decide that we want to reverse ourselves and
have several thousand people undo the work that they've done and deploy
a different solution?  Somehow, I don't think that even ARIN has the
political clout to pull that off in practice.

This is exactly why extreme care is necessary here: the genie *CANNOT*
be put back into the bottle.

Tony

P.s. If it's not blindingly obvious, I oppose 2005-1.