[address-policy-wg] Just say *NO* to PI space -- or how to make it lessdestructive

* Sascha Luck:

> On Monday 08 May 2006 06:28, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> In the latter case, a
>> rather significant fee is needed to turn global inconvenience into a
>> local one.
>
> An arbitrary fee, specifically designed to block someone's entry into 
> *any* market, is *illegal*, at least in any non-communist country that 
> I know. 

Have a look at frequency auctions and how they are used to lock out
competition from small players.  Many drastic measures are completely
legal.

> I also don't understand the whole decision circling back, endlessly, to 
> restrictive policies when nobody actually seems to want IPv6 (assuming 
> this is still what we're talking about)

The majority of those who post on the RIPE mailing lists deeply fear
that there is a real demand for IPv6, so much that their routers are
overloaded.  I don't know why.