Re: Changes to PI Policy?
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:09:49 +0100
At 17:29 17/04/2003 +0200, leo vegoda wrote:
The concept of PI space is definitely not broken. There is a
very real need for organisations, large and small, to be able
to connect to multiple Internet providers
Multi-homing can be done without PI address space.
But only if both providers agree, and both providers will not agree
or cooperate because it causes them to completely bugger their
network configurations.
ISPs thus suggest that $customer gets PI space.
This is obviously much less convenient for the registrant
when changing ISPs. It means that they may feel 'tied' to
the ISP whose address space they use. The setup is likely
to be quick(er) and eas(y/ier).
Absolutely. If an organisation wants to be connected to
multiple upstreams then they presumably want to be provider
independent. So, telling them to poke holes in one ISP's
fabric is not going to help.
The solution has to be to look at it from the other
perspective and make everyone provider independent. In the
interim, I think we should just look at stretching out the
current address space so it supports legitimate uses and
predicted capacity requirements.
That being said, networks use PI space for a number of
reasons. Apart from multi-homing, people often state that
they just don't want to have to renumber if they switch ISP.
Indeed. A very valid reason IMO.
Have a great holiday weekend, y'all,
et vous.
peter
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