Hi, On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 05:13:39PM +0100, Andy Davidson wrote:
On 18 Jun 2007, at 17:09, Gert Doering wrote:
There is quite a number of people out there that are quite sceptic about PI space - and really do not want to make access to PI space easy and convenient. Consider me one of those - globally routed PI space puts burden on everybody else, so this should be well- considered, and putting some hurdles in people's way might make them reconsider whether they really want PI or not.
What, you'd rather people deagg their PA in order to let their customers multi-home ?
Of course not. But multi-homing customers are only one facet of the picture - the other side is customers that just find it inconvenient to renumber when changing providers, so they go for PI, if that is more convenient (and we see this already happening in IPv4 in Europe - PI assignment rates have been going way up in recent years). Given current multi-homing technology (BGP), the number of participants doing BGP-style multi-homing is "somewhat limited" (because not everybody can run a BGP router yet, and ISPs do not usually offer BGP on DSL- or cable-style products yet) - while the number of end-users that would prefer to have a sticky IPv6 address and never having to renumber is virtually unlimited. And I direly want *those* to use PA space - and see that aggregated. For the multihomers, it's very hard to make generic statements, as the differences among these networks are huge. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 113403 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279