[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #alpha: TLD Anycast Allocation Policy

> > The original idea behind the IPv6 TLA, NLA, SLA was a
> > geographical and administrative hierachical design, in the
> > century of *competitive* operators this concept is *broken by
> > design*.
>
> It was never tried so how can you say that it was broken
> by design? The IPv6 is so vast that perhaps we should offer
> some address space to be allocated by geography and see where
> it leads to. Let the market decide rather than forcing everyone
> into the "one true way".

If I've understood correctly, geographical addressing will lead
to forced interconnection of providers in the geographical area
(some might think this is good) but also of carriage of transit
traffic destined to other providers' customers, i.e. you as a
provider would be forced to shoulder costs with no way to recover
them.  Ensuring some semblance of equality of this burden for
such interconnected providers appears difficult, and requires
tight cooperation among them, which is "somewhat" at odds with
the idea of independence and competition.

Regards,

- Håvard