[address-policy-wg] IPv6 Policy Clarification - Initial allocation criteria "d)"

On Friday 25 June 2004 22:12, David Kessens wrote:
> The policy is very clear: 'you need a plan to have 200 customers'. 

That's the whole point. The policy says *plan* to make 200 /48 assignments to 
other organisations within two years.
What's the point in that ? anyone can *plan* to make 200 assignments.
It seems to be a rule for the sake of having a rule - I'm sure there must have 
been good reasons for bringing it in, perhaps I just don't get it.
e.g. An LIR gets an allocation by showing a plan to assign 200 /48's. But 
after 2 years they've only assigned 50. They would have obeyed the policy 
even though they failed to achieve the 200 assignments.
This says to me that the 200 assignment rule is completely pointless.

> Times change though and it seems that nobody cares at all anymore about the
> fact that we are dealing here with global resource that has global impact 
> and that should have a global policy.

Yes, it is a global resource and I agree that it should be used in accordance 
with some global policy. But that global policy has got to make sense, and I 
just can't see the sense in the 200 assignments rule.

Jon