[ppml] alternative realities (was PIv6 for legacy holders (/wRSA + efficient use))

[Paul Vixie]

> In case you missed the point, the dialup is a ruse. What they're
> really renting is /24's for $50/mo with a catchall tunnel just in case
> someone decides to obstinately filter the long prefixes.
...
> The community overall loses with upwards of 65k new routes slammed
> into the IPv4 DFZ.

can each extant enterprise /8 be carved up into 64K /24's without exploding
the global routing table / default free zone / internet core?  ruse or not,
if it makes things break all over, then filtering won't just be obstinate.

> Policies violated? None. No global policy defines MIT's use of that
> /8. They're not even a legacy registrant under ARIN; the in-addr.arpa
> delagation comes from further upstream.
> 
> Yeah, okay, so its a little far fetched to think that MIT would do
> anything quite so crass. But they're not the only ones sitting on a
> /8.

i agree that if there's no attempt to treat ip addresses as property, or the
right to use an ip address as if it were a dark fibre IRU, then current policy
would seem to support this activity.  it's just another kind of "connection"
as in "connected devices".