[address-policy-wg] Suggested updates to 2010-05 (Global Policy for IPv4 Allocation by the IANA post exhaustion)

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 16:20, Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie> wrote:
>
> Regardless of the history of the previous proposal, history will not look
> back kindly if we collectively flail our arms in the air and claim "it
> would never work, so there's no point in even trying".   Call this naivety,
> idealism, or stupidity - I don't really care.  The policy has merit and
> refusing to deal with it now (while we're still vaguely sanguine about IPv4
> address allocation) will merely create a much more troublesome environment
> for attempting to get any sort of global agreement of any sort in the
> future (when no-one will be even remotely happy about allocation policy).
>

I completely agree. You have, in fact, written a fairly accurate description
of why I am putting my time and effort into this policy. Now is the time to
act - we can neither live in the past nor expect the future to take care of
itself.

~Chris
(again speaking entirely on my own)

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> Nick
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