[address-policy-wg] RE: IPv6 allocations for 6RD

> 3.5. Conservation and Administrative Ease
> Although IPv6 provides an extremely large pool of address space,  
> historical evidence shows that what now seems infinit might one day  
> turn out to become a scarce resource, Address policies should avoid  
> unnecessarily wasteful practices of such resources. Requests for  
> address space should be supported by appropriate documentation and  
> stockpiling of unused addresses should be avoided. Assignment of  
> address space based on the sole argument of administrative 
> ease is not permitted. Examples of this include, but are not limited 
> to, ease of billing administration and network management.

I strongly agree with the concern that v6 addresses could be depleted quickly. 

This problem will never be solved appropriately until you impose fees for addresses that increase with the size of the block being requested. What you seem to be learning, the hard way, is that charging nothing for addresses requires you to ration the address space using highly subjective and purely verbal, unquantifiable criteria. Such as, the term "unnecessarily wasteful" which manages to be both tautological and unprecise. Or the term "administrative ease"; ok, after that becomes a policy no one will admit that they are requesting addresses for administrative ease but will that actually alter their request? 

Appropriately graduated annual fees enforce conservation AND reclamation while relieving the allocator of engaging in these verbal and categorical games

Milton Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
XS4All Professor, Delft University of Technology
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