Re: Draft: PI addressing derived from AS numbers

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

> > > 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.
> Think carefully before you write things that the IPv6-haters might
> misuse.
Well, unless we fixes the problems at hand - they will be right. And 
unless we starting "facing the truth" - they will be right.

> The reason we have this WG is to work towards solutions for one
> thing that IPv6 with PA addresses doesn't fix in the IPv4 model.
> For whatever reason, we can't get past the problem statement stage,
> but it really isn't going to advance things to say that IPv6
Well, unless we soon get forward, the IPv6 effort will have been 
wasted. You won't get enterprises to IPv6 without a solution to multi6, 
and with no enterprises there is no revenue for the ISPs, with no 
revenue for the ISPs they won't deploy IPv6. It's as simple as that.

> is "broken" when the reality is much deeper than any of the
> specifics of IPv6.
Agreed.

> > We need time and a new design. There, I have said the magic word :).
> We need, probably, a two layer approach. That has been proposed
> often enough. We just need to work out which version to use
> and see how to add it to IPv6.
Agreed.

> > Global aggregation etc to me is starting to feel like a lot of 
> > ductape.
> Nobody has explained how we can have log scale tables and real time
> convergence times without aggregation.
I miswrote the above. I meant Geo aggregation.

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