[address-policy-wg] The flexibility of IPv4 routing

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 20:53 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
[ .. story about routing .. ]
> Anyway, I wish you guys could bring this kind of flexibility to the
> IPv6 world. 8-)

Too bad a lot of people seem to mix up
  Address Space
with
  Routing Slots.

The RIR's are for the first, not the latter (yet).

RIPE and all the other RIR's assign/allocate _Address Space_ to their
clients based on their need. How/if that _Address Space_ is actually
_Routed_ is not of any concern to the RIR's, that is the task of the one
who received the _Address Space_ to make it be like they require it.

If you want to make organisations use less routing slots then let them
pay for it (business opportunity) and/or filter them out.
Unless in the RIPE NCC case RIPE membership demands from RIPE NCC that
they start acting as the ITU-TT does. But that is nearly impossible
fortunately unless some big ISP's put their hands together and force all
you little folks out of the routing tables. (Which will result most
likely that small ISP's team up and we get a very cool split internet,
but at least with globally unique address space, pfew ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

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