There are many ways to mediate this.  No matter what one is chosen a balance 
between market, Networks and policy will need to be met.  And in the end 
Networks will do what is best for their network.  However if there is a norm of 
some kind, then at least there will be a target to hover around.

Market & Networks- 
Pro- Entities managing the health of their network would be less willing to 
route what would result in overload.
Con- The more financially healthy Entities can afford faster turn over and burn 
to new routers and circuit upgrades. The upper hand of growth goes to them 
since overload wouldn't be as much as an internal issue as it would be to other 
smaller networks.  The global scheme gets lost in the eye of the mighty dollar. 
 This is not anything new market pattern wise but Larger/Financially healthy 
entities would survive better than any smaller provider.

Policy
Pro- there would be a set standard to target
Con- policy is managed by the community and not always supporting every 
business model equally.  Plus policy can become a moving target as we have 
witnessed with IPv4.

        List Publishing-Policy
        Pro- qualified ASN's are approved a range of subnet size of route 
advertisements and any "too specific/smaller" advertisements are      ignored 
if not on the list.
        Con- this is policy. No one tells a network what to do.  

        Set Boundary policy 
        Pro- something exists as a target to help manage the issue
        Con- policy is very likely to become a moving target. No one tells a 
network what to do. 

Keep Head in Sand
Pro- Happy
Con- Calamity...but when? Or will there be a new option...the next best thing.  
Hope in one hand and @#$$ in the other.  One usually fills up faster.

Somehow the community needs to choose one of these paths.

My 2 cents 
Marla


-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick [mailto:na...@haller.ws] 
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2013 2:23 AM
To: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: minimum IPv6 announcement size

On 2013-09-26 08:52, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
>  sounds just like folks in 1985, talking about IPv4...

Yeah, but who doesn't run CIDR now?

Get everyone in the IPv6 pool now; we'll inevitably add hacks later....


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