[address-policy-wg] 2017-03 New Policy Proposal (Reducing Initial IPv4 Allocation, aiming to preserve a minimum of IPv4 space)

it might be wise to avoid the eternal rat-hole of what will and will not
increase ipv6 deployment.  whether we like it or not, and whether we
excoriate the folk who have not deployed or not, history has shown that
we do not know.

there are no more 32-bit integers.  ipv6 is horrifyingly and tragically
slow to deploy.  get over it.  get a life.

those of us who have been around a while have heard it all before.
raise your hand if you remember when 3gpp was going for force global
ipv6 deployment.  shall i start down the list of the other things?

[ remember my $dayjob deployed in 1997 and my co-worker wrote the kame
stack on which many of your ipv6 implementations are based. ]

the point here is simple.  the ripe community has a responsibility to
the human community beyond the members of this list.  as a friend wrote
privately

    I would be interested to have a person who is 16 years old reply:

    "I am planning to open my own internet company in 4 years; can you
    please save some address space for me, 'til I finish high school?"

    But of course, there is no such person on the RIPE mailing list..

and we are responsible to those 14 year olds.

it is called stewardship.

randy