[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Thomas Narten wrote:
>> If these policies cause 2000::/3 to be exhausted then there are 7 more
>> tries left to do it all over again.
>
> No. If we find that 2000::/3 is not enough, we've botched things badly
> through poor choices made today.

Yup.  Just think about the 6bone address space.  It's a bit unlikely 
that the address space gets exhausted, but it just might that at some 
point we would start thinking, "gee.. we really allocated these 
addresses badly.  let's start from scratch.  *those who already got 
addresses from the old block need to renumber*"

It's not so much exhaustion I'm worried about, it's the huge amount of 
crap (which we later might call "legacy allocations") we could end up 
with.

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