[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria
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Oliver Bartels
oliver at bartels.de
Tue Apr 5 14:46:01 CEST 2005
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:27:51 +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote: >Name the engineering problems of end-user PI. (Un)fortunately nobody >was yet able to show convincing prove that there IS a problem. Stop >FUDding. Full Ack. And no router vendor would be so stupid and blame itself not beeing able to route additional 20K IPv6 prefixes. >IETF is nowhere near any solution. They are as far away from it as they >can be. Will probably take another few years to finally realize that. Full Ack. The reason is fundamental and it is not a good idea to make policies against mathematical and physical laws ... >A sensible "separated locator and idenfication" approach would need a >complete revamp of the operating model and (and that's the big thing) >operating systems L3/L4 stacks. Won't happen, so shim6 will be a crude >hack, attacking only part of the requirement space. Full Ack. At the end of the day, there is the unique and globally routable address. We already *have* a "separated locator and idenfication" system, it is called DNS. The advantages and disadvantages are well known. Greetings Oliver Oliver Bartels F+E + Bartels System GmbH + 85435 Erding, Germany oliver at bartels.de + http://www.bartels.de + Tel. +49-8122-9729-0
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