[address-policy-wg] status of 2011-02

On 12/12/11 12:55 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> So I'm not really feeling very sympathetic to someone who's attempting to
> run a full DFZ on a 500k prefix box:  either they haven't done their
> projections properly (in which case they need to consider a different
> career), or else they bought the box years ago, and it's been depreciated
> off their books.  If you're using equipment that you many years ago, you
> shouldn't expect it to last forever, particularly if it has hard resource
> limits - e.g. forwarding table size.
>
> This is simply how hardware forwarding engines work.  We're no longer able
> to run anything more than tiny networks on 7200s and J series boxes.  It
> just doesn't work that way any more, and hasn't worked like that for years.

I can see a picture of a man in an old carriage, complaining about 
building the highways (that a carriage simply cannot use).

So you are effectively saying, that we are constraining the IPv6 address 
distribution because of "man in a carriage"?

Jan