Re: [address-policy-wg] 2019-02 New Policy Proposal (Reducing IPv4 Allocations to a /24)

[Jim Reid]

> On 4 Feb 2019, at 14:20, ga...@nethinks.com wrote:
> 
>> But how long does that discussion last? Perhaps 5-10 years from now we’ll be 
>> debating policies on how the NCC allocates /30s or /31s of v4. :-)
> 
> No, because (hopefully) the prefix filters on the v4 Internet will never EVER 
> allow anything smaller than a /24 to be routed on the open Internet ... 

That may well be true Garry.

But just think of all the fine dinners and exotic travel that can be had as we 
talk and talk and talk about IPv4 allocation policy for ever more useless 
allocation units of ever smaller amounts of v4 space at the NCC. We can't allow 
reality to intrude on those sorts of policy discussions. :-)