Re: Draft: PI addressing derived from AS numbers

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

I meant that we know how to do it for 64 bits (PA) or 32 bits (CIDR)
equally well. I agree with waht you say.

   Brian

David Conrad wrote:
> 
> Brian,
> 
> On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 06:09  AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > More precisely, we don't know how to aggregate 32 bit locators
> > any better than 64 bit locators.
> 
> Um.  Yes we do.  It is called CIDR.  It is well understood and has the
> minor advantage of being deployed.  What we don't know how to do is
> aggregate in the face of people refusing to aggregate for
> 'non-network-topologic' (e.g., economic, political, business, etc.)
> reasons.  One known and obvious way of doing this is by separating the
> two and providing a mapping.  Locators can then be re-arranged without
> getting into non-network-topologic arguments.
> 
> Rgds,
> -drc