IPv6 PI allocation

[Andrew Alston]

As a matter of interest...

In a world with no IPv4, where all IPv6 is P.A on very large boundaries...
how financially viable are the RIR's when doing far far less allocations?

I may be way off here, but if you only do P.A assignments, will the models
the RIR's work on not have to change... drastically... in order for them to
still function?

Any thoughts?

Andrew

> In addition to the technical arguments which I think Nick has argued
> very eloquently, there are also serious economic arguments that just
> can't be ignored. PI space in IPv4 is something that large scale
> Internet businesses (and some smaller ones) _depend_ on (whether their
> reasoning is misguided or not). I have talked to several who refuse to
> even devote R&D time to IPv6 until there is PI space available. They
> simply cannot make a case for a technology that "regresses" in this
> area. I realize these arguments have been had before, I've been at
> many of the RIR meetings where they were discussed. They go along very
> predictable lines, many of which have been repeated here. But at the
> end of the day, Nick (and others in this thread) are right. If you
> want to get IPv6 off the ground, you have to give the people what they
> want.