On 14/03/2012, at 7:59 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
And here is the crux of the matter. Fear of scarcity because of long history with IPv4 being in
a state of scarcity is driving many of our IPv6 mistakes.
Possibly, but at the same time an irrational abandonment of consideration of scarcity leads to ridiculous allocations like the handful of /19 and /20s given early on in the process. Those allocations in turn then leads to friction with those who now won't get such huge blocks and so feel that once again they've been shut out of the developed world club.
One of the major lessons I've learned from running a registry is that we must treat resources as scarce, even if they are not, otherwise we run quickly into the tragedy of the commons as people take far more than they need and we end up with scarcity after all.
Jay
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