[address-policy-wg] Discrepancy Between RIPE Policies on IPv4 and IPv6 Provider Independent (PI) Address Space

Hi Gert,

Gert Doering wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 04:58:52PM +0200, Carsten Schiefner wrote:
>> Oh, and yes: I am in favour of a v4/v6 harmonisation, too.
> 
> Why?

all right, fair question :-) - for the reason that has been voiced here 
already: v4 and v6 are of course different - but should not be treated 
differently in the way PI space is being managed. Not even if I consider 
your devil's advocate argument below.

> (Half of it is because it's easier to judge the outcome of a discussion
> if there are specific arguments for or against something - and the
> other half of it is because I'm playing the devil's advocate, and claim
> that we might not want IPv6 to be the same as IPv4...  e.g. as in 
> "if people can use PI to give single IPv6 addresses to their end 
> customers, we might see DSL deployments with single address + NAT,
> and this not something I want to see"...)

Best,

	Carsten