> Have you read the analysis pieces on how, "Powerpoint doomed 
> the Columbia" (space shuttle)?
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/2
> 9/AR2005082901444.html

No but I have read the original report of the investigating committee
into the Challenger disaster and I remember the cluttered slide which
mentioned the O-ring problem. That's why I am not suggesting that the
IETF start producing slideware, but instead suggesting that we need a
summary prose RFC.

> It doomed the Columbia, and killed seven astronauts.

Not to mention Challenger which also killed astronauts.

> > It matters when people make claims about IPv6 exhaustion based on
> > 2000::3
> >   
> I hope that isn't how you are characterizing my proposal, or 
> the underlying premise.

Did I mention your name? If I recall correctly it was Geoff Huston who
raised concerns about IPv6 exhaustion which led to ARIN changing its
policies to recommend that ISPs assign /56 blocks to small site users.

> What I *am* concerned about, is maintaining 1 prefix per ASN, 
> to prevent routing table bloat.

As long as the time of multiple IPv6 prefixes per ASN is delayed until
IPv4 networks start disappearing from the global routing table, we are
OK. I expect to see this begin in 5 years.

> Rational folks can disagree on how much this needs to be contained.

The vendors seem confident that there is no near-term issue here. 

> Basically, this boils down to whatever the WG chair, AD, and 
> consensus of the WG say it is.

Precisely. It has to be discussed in the WG for consensus to form, one
way or another.

--Michael Dillon

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