[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg] IPv6 micro allocation or something else?

-----Original Message-----
From: address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net
[mailto:address-policy-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Wilfried Woeber,
UniVie/ACOnet

Hi Wilfried,

>From that perspective I seem to see 2 aspects in the recent discussion:
>
>- you shall not receive address space for builing a service, you are to
>  buy that from some "big-folk".
>
>  This is an intersting point of view, and taken to the extreme will
>  make us end up with a _very small_ number of _very big_ entities.
>
>  Traditionally these things were called monopolies. Nothing I would be
>  too happy to see coming back ;-)
>
>- there has been th discussion regarding "anycast" but isnt this just
>  a special(?) case of th PI-topic?

You are right; the differences between PI and anycast are few. 
Perhaps it would be a (good?) idea to merge the anycast and PI discussion
into a single discussion instead.

>  This is an intersting point of view, and taken to the extreme will
>  make us end up with a _very small_ number of _very big_ entities.

Strictly speaking;
All you need to do is to create a network and ask for address space. The
"anycasters" won't even do that. They want the address space without the
network. That is what I don't support. 


Joergen Hovland