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Re: IPv6 news
From: Tony Li <tony.li () tony li>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:52:19 -0700
But I think the discussion is mood. IETF decided on their goal, and it's superfluous trying to change that. While watching shim6 we carry on hoping that we'll get IPv6 multihoming going in the conventional, proven, working, feature-complete way we're used to... until IETFthere is no hope in having operators explain to ietf that the current pathis fruitless? certainly they can be made to see the light, yes?
Doubtful. The IETF was operating under the impression that having a scalable routing subsystem was paramount. Do you think operators can be made to see that light?
Implementing IPv6 multihoming the "conventional" way guarantees that we end up with one prefix per site, and as the need for multihoming reaches deeper into the population, the growth rate of the routing table would surpass even the growth rate of the Internet itself.
The alternative is a multihoming scheme that does not require a prefix per site. But that doesn't match the stated requirement of 'conventional', 'proven', 'working' [sic], 'feature-complete'.
The operational community needs to reach consensus on what its priorities are. We fought the CIDR wars to keep the routing subsystem working and the operational community were the primary backers of that. To not support scalable multihoming is to reverse that position entirely.
Tony
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 news, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 news Jeroen Massar (Oct 13)
- Re: IPv6 news Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Joe Abley (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Jeroen Massar (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Daniel Roesen (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Joe Abley (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Daniel Roesen (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Daniel Roesen (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Tony Li (Oct 14)
- Re: IPv6 news Daniel Roesen (Oct 15)
- shim6 ... easy? bmanning (Oct 15)
- Re: IPv6 news Tony Li (Oct 15)
- Re: IPv6 news Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 15)
- Re: IPv6 news Tony Li (Oct 15)
- Re: IPv6 news Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 16)
- Re: IPv6 news Paul Jakma (Oct 16)
- Re: IPv6 news Paul Jakma (Oct 15)
- Re: IPv6 news Randy Bush (Oct 15)
- Re: IPv6 news Paul Jakma (Oct 15)