RE: Architectural approaches to multi6

["Bound, Jim" <Jim.Bound@hp.com>]

This was also my architectural point about the Internet being chaos :--)
/jim

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com] 
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:54 PM
> To: Christian Huitema
> Cc: multi6@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Architectural approaches to multi6
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
>