Re: Draft: PI addressing derived from AS numbers

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

> This would create a terrible precedent. In the long run, we can expect:
> - People that have swamp space lobbying for v6 PI also, on the grounds
> that if people that have an ASN get v6 PI space they should get it too.
> Actually, swamp space holders have on paper a better reason than ASN
> holders to get v6 PI space.
Why? They still need an AS to get it announced. Either by themselves or 
through someone else.

> - AS numbers being extended to 32 bits. Then people that get ASNs above
> 64k will also strongly lobby to get PI on the grounds that it's not 
> fair
> that early adopters only get it.
It's still a size we can handle.

> If we had no other choice, I would support this as being not as bad as
> unrestricted PI. But it's still unaggregatable, and we do have a better
> choice: GAPI.
It's fast and it works. Go for it.

- kurtis -