Hi, On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:06:07PM +0100, Niels Bakker wrote:
Gert Doering writes:
We are currently allocating 1/8th of the IPv6 space. So if we *really* get everything wrong, we can try 7 additional times.
This argument always leaves me wondering what you plan to do with the existing routing table. Dump it on some sort of flag day? Carry twice the number of routes during a transition period? Not really workable if you expect table growth to be the limiting factor, no?
I don't know what the limiting factor will be. I'm mainly argueing that *conservation* is really a big non-issue here, but *if* we are wrong in assuming this, we are able to try again. As for the routing table growth, yes, this is a very tricky problem, but it cannot be solved at RIR level - the RIRs can not decide who is an "important ISP" and who is a "less important ISP that should prevented from having their own networks" (by being forced to use upstream addresses from "important ISP" - renumbering is fairly easy for end sites, but a PITA for an ISP plus all his customers). Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 71770 (72395) SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-299