Re: Consensus Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

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I will add one more concern with this allocation.

IPv4 address allocation is a market (supply exceeds demand in this
case), and thus a strategic game (like chess) to gather limited
resources .

We have known for a long time how IPv4 was not an acceptable long term solution.

We have known for a long time that IPv6 is the only path forward for a
growing internet (more people online, more devices connected, up and
to the right...)

This allocation is changing the rules of the game in the last few
minutes (IANA and APNIC are already out...) and is dubiously blessing
an Internet model based on CGN.

Changing the rules of the game towards the end to manipulate the
outcome is seldom acceptable, regardless of the context.  AFAIK, there
have been no extenuating circumstance that have dictated a need for a
change.  IPv4 did not magically run out.  My favorite IPv4 risk
artifact should be familiar to the draft authors or other people in
the ARIN region:

https://www.arin.net/knowledge/about_resources/ceo_letter.pdf

I understand how this allocations benefits folks in the short run, and
i promise to use this allocation to my benefit  (better than squat
space, right?!).  But, at the macroscopic level at which the IETF,
IESG, and IAB should be working, this is just changing the rules of
the game at the last minute because some players don't like the
outcome, even though this outcome (ipv4 is out, need to use v6)  has
had 10+ years of runway.

I do not believe this is a positive sum game where this allocation is
made and everyone wins.  I do believe IPv6 loses (CGN vs v6
investment*, urgency, lines on strategy diagrams...) if this
allocation is made, and i do not think it is acceptable to change the
rules of the game in the final moments because the outcome is costly
for some.

Cameron

*i already have the link to your press release that your lab is ipv6
enabled, thanks!
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