Dear Randy, Thanks for the clarification.
think about just reseserving a /16 or whatever for a country and doing sparse
allocation from the block in the normal way.
Shud explore.
Dear Skeeve,
When I referred to respecting views, it was precisely over this
thought that only skilled and experienced engineers can have
opinions. :-)
when i suggested we needed a base in routing on which to discuss the
routing-related justifications presented for prop-100, i in no way meant
to express the jingoism into which skeeve embarrassingly descended.
my proposal was merely meant to be sure we were all standing on the same
technical base when discussing technical issues. and probably we can
all use review of the relevant basics.
fwiw, my opinion on the proposal in general is that it is a mistake to
try and base it on technical issues. aside from forcing you to deal
with ill-mannered engineers such as i, it drags you below layer nine
into areas where the arguments being made are very difficult to support
technically.
if pop-100 is all at layers nine and ten (politics and religion), you
have gone above my pay grade and even i have to admit my opinions are
irrelevant. i think if folk would stay above layer eight, then there
probably are very reasonable approaches to your very real social and
political issues.
for example, ipv6 space is thought to be infinite (i do not necessarily
agree. we used to think 32 bits was effectively infinite). think about
just reseserving a /16 or whatever for a country and doing sparse
allocation from the block in the normal way.
randy