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Re: Draft: PI addressing derived from AS numbers

- AS numbers being extended to 32 bits. Then people that get ASNs above
64k will also strongly lobby to get PI on the grounds that it's not
fair that early adopters only get it.


It's still a size we can handle.



32 bits??? I don't think so...




This again depends on the timeline. As there is also a cost involved I 
still don't believe that we will have a billion multihomed networks 
tomorrow. sorry,




If we had no other choice, I would support this as being not as bad 
as

unrestricted PI. But it's still unaggregatable, and we do have a 
better

choice: GAPI.




It's fast and it works. Go for it.



I hope you're talking about GAPI here.



I am not.




The whole ASN == PI thing doesn't work because every multihomer can get

an AS number so every multihomer can get PI space so we're right back 
at

square one.


Yes. But it works. We know the dangers. And we can control it.




A much better way to do this would be to take the globally unique site

local addresses for this. We can give two blocks of globally unique 
site


...which breaks a lot of current applications.




whatever, all bets are off and either we have built some MHAP-like
mechanism to map from these PI addresses to PA addresses or we admit
failure and go back to v4. Or we assign these addresses geographically





Currently we won't get to v6 because it is broken and does not provide 
the functionality needed.



We need time and a new design. There, I have said the magic word :).



Global aggregation etc to me is starting to feel like a lot of ductape.



- kurtis -