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Re: [ipv6-wg] Re: [address-policy-wg] Re: 200 customer requirements for IPv6

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  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <
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  • Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:09:05 +0100

On 7-dec-2005, at 15:58, Michael.Dillon@localhost wrote:

To a first approximation, there is *no* level of aggregation in the UK
that works below UK-wide.

If that were really true, and I suspect that it is only true
for the very largest providers, then there is an easy solution.
Providers who see no benefit in using geotop addressing should
continue to use classical IPv6 addressing.
Rather than debate wheter someone in Aberdeen is really going to multihome to ISPs in Norwich and Belfast, let me observe that aggregating at the European national level is just fine. The largest countries in Europe each have about 1% of the world's population. So if they also have 1% of the routing table we can have 100 times as many routes as we could without geographical aggregation. That should give us plenty of breathing room.

It's harder for the US because there are no easy demarcations there.

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