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Gert Doering
gert at space.net
Tue Jun 22 09:59:05 CEST 2004
Hi, On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:54:59AM +0200, Joao Damas wrote: > On 21 Jun, 2004, at 17:00, Havard Eidnes wrote: > > >>I really fail to see the reason behind the 200 other organisation > >>rule - perhaps someone would like to explain the logic. > > > >I think the logic is that the RIRs are trying to portion out routing > >space so that we don't get a global routing table explosion in IPv6 in > >the same way we have (had) in IPv4. To acheive this, they need to make > >sure that the small ISPs don't get their own allocation, > > If this is true, it is really disturbing given that the RIPE NCC was [..] The "200 user" criteria came from the ARIN and APNIC communities, not from the RIRs. [..] > Also disturbing is that, while there are groups working on proposing > new solutions to the multihoming problem, the policy seems to reflect a > conviction that they will fail and therefore there need to be > constraints imposed at a table size of a few hundred entries. I can't see the connection. The whole point of the multi6 group is to find multihoming solutions that do *not* need a global routing table slot. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 60210 (58081) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster at Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299
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