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

["Tony Li" <Tony.Li@procket.com>]

|   > Are you suggesting that we disallow the globally visible route?
|   
|   In short: yes, that is what my provider-internal aggregation draft
|   suggests. However, since aggregation happens within individual ISP
|   networks they all get to choose whether they want to 
|   aggregate or not.
|   This uses regular BGP. A longer-term solution may be able 
|   to improve on
|   this, although I doubt having a few hundred million globally visible
|   routes will work well even with much smarter protocols.


Excellent, thank you this is the first step towards scalability.  Now
we only differ on the mechanisms.

Tony