[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Policy for allocation of IPv6 address space from IANA to RIRs

> Repeat the mistakes done in IPv4, only this time by assigning everything to
> the RIRs instead of directly to the user? Good plan. Has nobody learned from
> the mistaked made in the past?
> 
> We can not say if there will be another assigment policy then IANA->RIR->LIR
> in maybe 20 or 30 years (thats the time IPv6 has a realistic chance to gain
> real speed).
> 
> Then the RIRs sit on their /8s wihtout really needing it just like the
> organizations that got direct assignments today.

bingo!

and i do not buy the assumption that the rirs need no oversight,
just as i do not buy that the iana does.  and i do not buy that
these policy fora mailing lists provide that oversight any more
than i buy that the equivalent ones in icann provide the same
for the iana.

randy