Ha: [address-policy-wg] RE: an arithmetic lesson

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:33:17AM -0800, David Conrad wrote:
> Allocating IPv6 /24 now when we have "plenty" of IPv6 address
> space because it makes a particular protocol proposal more convenient
> is, in my view, simply repeating history.  It is _the equivalent
> of_ allocating "class As".

The math *and* the economics disagree with you.  

IPv4 class A have been limited to 127 pieces, and they came for free.  

There's 2 million IPv6 /24s inside FP001, and they come with a yearly 
price tag, so "not everybody or their dog" are going to ask for one (and, 
as I said, I know at least one LIR who is most definitely not going to 
ask for one - so not even every LIR that does deploy IPv6 wants a /24).

Gert Doering
        -- APWG chair
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