[rrg] Consensus call: Reject proposed strategy F?

[Brian E Carpenter]

Bill,

On 2008-12-31 19:30, Tony Li wrote:

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> |And what's the justification for maintaining
> |the IETF recommendation that the RIRs impose artificial restrictions
> |on the minimum allocation size? Or for that matter any restrictions at
> |all on IPv6 assignment in multihomed environments?
> 
> 
> Adding more prefixes will hasten the inevitable.

Exactly. Thus far, since BGP4 was deployed, the size of the DFZ has
grown one order of magnitude less than the public Internet as a whole.
That's mainly a result of policy constraints on prefix length and
utilisation. If selfishness had ruled, we'd be vastly worse off by now.

   Brian