On 01/09/2011, at 2:13 PM, Naresh Ajwani wrote:
None of the arguments for reservation have been at all convincing. None of them, to me, appear to be solving real problems and getting real and useful outcomes. The arguments for reservations always seem to have to appeal to thing which don't have much
of a place in APNIC policy making.
I don't like the idea of IPv6 address space reservation. It seems unnecessary and will create more conflict and not usefully change the outcome overtime for the better.
I don't see how, given the size of IPv6 space and the way we're allocating it at the moment (fairly conservatively) that reservation will do anything useful other than create arguments on sig-policy for the medium and long term future. I've seen NO argument
that persuasively convinces me to even consider reservation.
It's not at all clear to me how reservation makes things fair or even seen to be fair. I can make some quite good arguments that reservation maybe used by some groups to reduce fairness within "economies" by creating political barriers to allocation and
thus stopping competition.
I've seen only one economy making claims similar to this.
MMC
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