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by Dagger2 59 days ago
I mean, you own 2002:101:101::/48. You also own ::1.1.1.1, ::ffff:1.1.1.1 and 64:ff9b::1.1.1.1.

> If they just gave me 1.1.1.1:: in v6, anyone migrating v4 to v6 would have the same route to me as before, and other changes like DNS6 could be gradual

That's not really how routes work. Or DNS.

I think you're mainly arguing we should import v4's allocations into v6, but about the only benefit is that people don't have to bother requesting new allocations. It doesn't help with any other aspect of the transition, and there are good reasons to avoid doing it -- the v4 address space is highly fragmented and also very unfairly allocated.

Plus we have plenty of people saying we should take back v4 allocations from companies that own them. That's not possible, but _not_ giving owners of v4 /8s an entire 1/256th of the v6 address space certainly is.