[arin-ppml] PolicyProposal:EquitableDistributionofIPv4Resources before IPv4 Run out

Paul Vixie paul at vix.com
Fri May 23 12:57:57 EDT 2008


> How about this then, allocating the last of IPV4 using the "halfway there"
> algorythm, Whereby no single allocation can be made that is larger than half
> of the remaining pool.  Granted the extra-large consumer will hit the wall
> first this way, but it would ensure that there wasn't a land grab by a
> greedy rich guy to take the last ip in the world.  I haven't thought this
> through, so it is not in the form of a proposal, but I think the idea has
> some merits.

would we call this the Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox proposal?

re: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes

btw: :-)



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