On Thursday, January 30, 2014 07:17:11 AM Mark Andrews wrote:
Or you could just accept that there needs to be more routing slots as the number of businesses on the net increases. I can see some interesting anti-cartel law suits happening if ISP's refuse to accept /28's from this block.
I understand the reasoning behind RIR's (and the community that supports them) not caring about routability, but if there is a lesson we can learn from IPv4, it is that perhaps that divorce is not entirely practical. It might be a good idea to think about how RIR's (and the community that supports them) "could care" about routability, so we don't end up in the same situation with IPv6, whenever that will be, or if any of us will be alive. It's definitely too late to do anything about it for IPv4, which means there will be even more lessons to learn in the coming months/years... I know it is a moving target (advances in FIB memory is not something an RIR [and the community that supports them] can depend on, for example), but I also don't think it makes complete sense for the RIR's (and the community that supports them) to be in a utopia about this - that it will all "just sort itself out". Mark.