Re: initial issues

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Randy,

Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> 2374 sec 3.1 is going fro draft status, says
> 
>    "Top-Level Aggregation Identifiers (TLA ID) are the top level in the
>    routing hierarchy.  Default-free routers must have a routing table
>    entry for every active TLA ID ..."
> 
> this would seem to take a poorly-substantiated socio-political theory and
> mandate its enshrinement in the core of v6 routing.

I don't think that is the correct interpretation at all. I have always
read the above as a tautology: whatever a TLA prefix is, it's what you
are going to find in the default free BGP table. (2374 happens to bind it
to a 13 bit field, but that doesn't seem to be your point.) It may turn out 
that the most radical solutions for multihoming blow away the very concept
of a default-free routing table; we shall see. For now, I think we
should follow up on the kind of systematic analysis itojun has started.

  Brian

  Brian