[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria
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Iljitsch van Beijnum
iljitsch at muada.com
Tue Apr 5 15:18:22 CEST 2005
On 5-apr-05, at 14:27, Daniel Roesen wrote: >> And that's exactly the problem. This forum is more or less a marketing >> forum, and as such it's the wrong place to decide on these issues, as >> these are ENGINEERING tradeoffs. > 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. The problem is that PI isn't scalable. This is of course fine if you don't feel like scaling, but putting non-scalable aspects in technology that is supposed to be around for decades to come is a very dangerous and expensive game. > IETF is nowhere near any solution. They are as far away from it as they > can be. Believe me, they could have been much farther away from a solution. :-) > There is no REAL multihoming without PI yet. And the IETF recently > narrowed down the road they want to take (solution space) that > guarrantees that the result won't fit people's needs. The multi6=>shim6 > transition was (for me and quite a few others) the "end of all hope". Why? > 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. Shim6 will deliver 80% of the functionality of a loc/id solution with 20% of the effort. There are plenty of hooks to attach the remaining functionality later, but making small steps first makes much more sense.
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