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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
From: Brad Knowles <brad () stop mail-abuse org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 19:56:27 +0200
At 10:30 AM -0700 2005-07-08, Matt Ghali wrote:
You keep using the "entire internet" in your replies, when I was under the assumption that we were discussing the inter-provider DFZ. The only routers which could possibly be affected by the "prefix bloat problem" would be multi-homed and mostly inter-provider, which is a small fraction of "all routers on the internet".
They're the biggest and most expensive routers on the Internet, and if the routing table were to be allowed to grow without bounds, they wouldn't be the only ones that would need to be replaced. Everyone else would very soon have the exact same problem.
And there are enough of them that you'd probably spend more money upgrading them than upgrading all the other routers in the world.
I'm not trying to accuse you of anything, but your arguments are beginning to sound like a disingenuous straw-man.
Maybe a slight exaggeration, I grant you. But certainly on the right order of magnitude.
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- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008, (continued)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Joe Abley (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 David Meyer (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Matt Ghali (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Roesen (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Roesen (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Joe Abley (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Daniel Roesen (Jul 09)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Tony Li (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Christopher L. Morrow (Jul 08)