PI vs PA Address Space

>I agree completely.  Anything that makes it easy to renumber
>all the hosts in a given small-i internet into a new prefix,
>or better still, a different-size block, solves almost all
>of the problems that people talk about on CIDRD.
>
>I am therefore always at a loss to explain why a couple
>of fairly vocal IAB members are so stringently opposed to
>developing such technology, and moreover actively curse
>a technology that can solve 90% of the cases where renumbering
>is a problem (small small-i internets moving to new providers
>or *** connecting for the first time ***).

Its obviously not a technical, but an attitude problem. People have the
mindset that they "fought" for getting a net number, and they take
pride in ownership. A good part of the problem is that those people got
the address in the mindset of "my address lasts forever," rather than
being a convenience measure. There is no guarantee you keep your phone
number either, if the phone company beliieves they have a good reason
to change it. Look at the area code splits in, e.g., CA. Or is you move
to "another area." Postal address the same. If you move to another
location, you mail your business partners and customers a new
name-to-address mapping.

The other issue is an overblown horror about renumbering (even if the
same names are kept). In reality it is really not THAT much of a big
deal (yes, I have done it several times before), if planned for right,
and if at most one has to do it only every few years. Sure it can be
quite a bit of work, BUT SO WHAT? Networking does not come for free, it
is a high maintenance item, just like trees in the back yard. There
sure is a solution to not having to worry about the work with the trees
any more.

People just have to learn that in an environment as fastly moving as
The Network, things cannot be static, and they have to expect some
maintenance work, and some of it may be a pain in the butt. Cost of
doing business. Just include the budget for "1 renumbering every 3
years" as a line item. I cannot understand the pride people take in
exponential grows, and a belief in things being static and
maintenance free at the same time.

Guess the *real* problem is that nobody has the guts in this anarchic
Internet environment to put his butt on the line and force the issue.