[address-policy-wg] 2006-05 New Policy Proposal (PI Assignment Size)

Hi Gert,
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:58:22 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
>I strongly think that the latter kind should not be able to get PI space 
>easily, for a one-time-fee, and burden the *recurring cost* for their 
>convenience on everybody else.

Your approach sounds like "Planwirtschaft" and generating jobs
for buerocrates ("right-to-use PI certification agency auditing
office supervisor" ;-/

How about taking the potential money received for PI to finance
a better BGP / routing technology or at least memory for poor
ISP's ?

If we would handle other network technological issues like the
"PI is impossible - large tables are impossible" one, we probably
would have a "right-to-use-a-9600-baud-modem certification
agency" instead of DSL, just because someone would argument
that it is impossible to have more than 10 high speed channels
on a standard 1000 phone lines copper cable ...

Do you remember the old "private modems are bad and will
destroy the phone network" arguments from former Bundespost ?

The PI routing issue is a technical challenge which
cries for an technical solution (yes, large distributed databases
do exist) and not for an additional administration.

Best Regards
Oliver



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