Re: PI/metro/geo [Re: The state of IPv6 multihoming development]

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

> Noel has already answered, but I would like to add that we know the
> routing structure will be flat at some level. However, to get to the
> ten billion node Internet we need to plan for, we need aggregation
> of addresses much deeper in the topology than we have it today -
> let's think in terms of 10000 subnets represented by one route,
> for example.

Any particular reason for the 10 billion figure?

My provider-internal solution (see draft) doesn't scale to quite this
level, but I believe it will buy us more than enough time to work out
all the kinks in one or more multi-address solutions. I would very much
appreciate some feedback that isn't just geo-allergy.

Iljitsch van Beijnum