Re: Regionally aggregatable address space for multihoming

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>>> Is it just multi-homing that is at the source of the issue? What
>>> about the prefix-based inter-AS traffic engineering that Geoff
>>> alluded to in Minneapolis?
>>
>> that is the ptomaine effort, yes?
> 
> no - the ptomaine effort attempts to say that lets continue to use the 
> inter-domain routing protocol as connectivity + policy + TE and lets work 
> how to identify the 'noise' associated with policy + TE and limit its 
> promulgation with the routing fabric to some loosely defined boundary.
> 
> This strikes me as a stop gap rather than an enduring scaleable solution, 
> in my humble opinion. I dont mean to devalue ptomaine as I think that 
> buying time is good if you have a problem, but my cautionary note is along 
> the lines of not mistaking the band aid for the cure. :-)

i think we're actually in agreement on what is in multi6 and what in
ptomaine, and that promaine is an attempt to stall until there is a cure.
and this was fairly clearly set out in ptomain's original statements.

i suspect where we may disagree is the etiology of the disease.  i suspect
that this may be one of those viruses where those infected think that they
are healthy as it is only their neighbors who suffer from the symptoms.

randy