Re: Interim Policy proposal for IPv6 Address Assignment Policy for Internet Exchange Points

[Andrew Partan <]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Chris Fletcher wrote:
> AIUI the reason for restricting who gets sub TLAs is...
>   If everyone (multihomed customers) gets a sub TLA then the
>   default-free routing table fills up with multihomed customer sub
>   TLAs and IPv6 routing tables are as cluttered and unscalable as IPv4.

Bingo!  Thats the real reason.  The only known way of keeping
routing working is keeping the tables small.  There is no known
technical means of doing this at the moment, so we are forced into
the administrative realm.  Thus you see all sorts of rules &
regulations about addreses and how to get them and use them.

[See ptomaine, multi6, and some of the IRTF work for more about
this.]
	--asp@localhost (Andrew Partan)