[ppml] Buying time...

[Bill Woodcock]

    > The discussion about 'buying time' to prepare for IPv6 is just
    > a stalling tactic that will only make the eventual effort that much more
    > painful. It is absolutely understandable that people want to have more time
    > to prepare, but to do that they should have started earlier. Making the
    > current processes more painful for new comers just so the lethargic can feel
    > better is not 'stewardship'.

Agreed.  ARIN just isn't in a position to save people from themselves.  
We're running out of v4.  The solution to that is v6.  If people want to 
avail themselves of the solution, it's there.  We can't force them, and 
it's twenty years too late to come up with a different solution.

                                -Bill