Re: the race to the bottom problem

[Lorenzo Colitti <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, 8 Nov 2020, 08:24 Nick Hilliard, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> this is the problem: I did read it, just like I've read through all the
> other threads on this topic over the last several years. There was a
> repeat of the usual speculation, generalisation and echo-chamber
> mechanics which have characterised this discussion at the ietf since
> more-or-less forever.
>
> You said: "we’ve already seen clear pressure to race to the bottom".
>
> So I politely ask you again: please provide citations to data.  Then we
> can have a discussion.
>

Ok, I'll bite. Once. :-)

Here's some data:

https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/96/slides/slides-96-v6ops-4.pdf

says that 29% of survey responses says the LAN prefix size is /64. This is
despite pretty much every IETF and RIR document saying that ISPs should
assign more.

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