Re: Architectural approaches to multi6

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On vrijdag, maa 28, 2003, at 17:13 Europe/Amsterdam, Christian Huitema 
wrote:

> This is a suboptimal but workable solution in case of site 
> multi-homing,
> as the independent trees are joined at the "site" branch. How 
> suboptimal
> depends on the size of that branch vs. the size of the tree.
I'd like to take this opportunity to remark that internet addressing 
doesn't look like a tree. It's more like a field full of weed. There 
are just two levels in the hierarchy: ISPs and customers. There is no 
level above the ISPs. With a /8 worth of /32s that makes for a 
potential of 512M bonsais rather than a single tree.

That's a shame really, because a tree would allow interesting new 
routing mechanisms.