Re: comments on draft-py-multi6-gapi-00.txt

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

> > You can also argue that address consumption will most likely NOT 
> > follow
> > geographic boundaries. If I take Stockholm, Ericsson for example have
> > their HQ in a relatively unpopulated area. Also the "swedish silicon
> > valley" have a high number of multinationals that will want to
> > mulithome, but relatively small population.
> I'm sure address consumption won't follow the population spread.
> However, there is only one other objective way of pre-allocating 
> address
> space: on geography. This both wastes a lot of address space and fails
> to provide enough of it. In the end, it all comes down to people: they
> own/operate equipment that needs to be connected over multiple lines.
> I'm sure many more people own or run a multihomed network in the
> Swedish silicon valley than in a rural province of China, but the gain
> you get from allocating less for China is much smaller than the hassle
> of having to manually look at it and justify your decision.
The problem is how you make sure you get enough addresses where they 
are needed, without having to reallocate space.

> - kurtis -