[address-policy-wg] IPv6 access to K-root

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:21:33PM +0100, Elmar K. Bins wrote:
> Maybe end sites need to be classified further. But then...let's
> await future discussions on the matter; I don't like preaching
> to walls, so maybe somebody else can turn the walls into something
> softer :-)

So far, nobody has proposed a 

 "globally visible v6 to <important end sites>" 

policy yet.  People are clearly unhappy, and blaiming policies, but are
not making specific proposals.

One could start with the "critical infrastructure" policy from ARIN, but 
I keep saying that Google is much more critical to the average network 
user than one specific nameserver out of the NS set of a random ccTLD 
registry...

Most large enterprises will think of themselves as much more important 
than anybody else.

So it's not easy to come up with a set of rules "who is permitted to
announce a globally visible prefix and who isn't".  

Nils seems to aim for "everybody is", which is something I'm afraid 
of...  (and I don't see that "vendors will deliver routers that can 
handle $Billions of routes" anytime soon, seeing that vendors are 
still shipping "top of the line" products that can't do more than 
256k IPv4 prefixes).

OTOH, one might see this "IPv6 deployment isn't happening because
we can't get addresses!!!" as a pretty lame excuse - /48 multihoming 
has serious problems, but if you really *want* to get started with IPv6,
it works, for the time being.

Gert Doering
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