Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

[David Conrad <david.conrad () nominum com>]

Christian,

On Jul 7, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Kuhtz, Christian wrote:
> > > What's the problem with independent address space for every entity
> > > (company, family, enterprise) which wants it?
> > It doesn't scale.  Regardless of Moore's law, there are some
> > fundamental physical limits that constrain technology.
> Once you add that bit of reality to it, the scaling requirement goes
> down substantially.  Wouldn't you agree?

My feeling is that the question isn't how much memory, but rather how  
much CPU and bandwidth is necessary to deal with routing thrash.   
Yes, you can aggregate different things to try to reduce the number  
of entries, but that would seem to go against the general idea Alexei  
was suggesting.  I mean, I'm an entity, and it'd be cool to have my  
own routed PI address and not have to deal with reconfiguring my  
network when I took my laptop from work to home...

Rgds,
-drc