Re: Criteria for initial PA Allocation
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 22:23:37 +0859 ()
Adrian;
> I'm just think about routing table size - allowing customers to multi-home
> (and perferably load balance over both of their links) - and am not really
> worrying about IP space conservation. ie. basically thinking in an IPv6
> world.
So, global routing table size should be <<10K.
> If the customer wants to change either provider they need to re-number -
> which is not nice.
>
> It could be possible for ISP A to break, still announce the large special
> block and not have access to either the customer or ISP B - in which case ISP
> A could be blackholing the customer's data for some parts of the Internet -
> again not nice ;-(
>
> Oh, yeah, it requires someone to use ipv6 ;-)
A serious problem is that there are many tuples of ISPs.
Masataka Ohta
