RE: regionalized addresses, RIRs, and table size

["Ray Plzak" <plzak@arin.net>]

This has been discussed in regard to the minimum allocation from the
IANA to the RIRs in all the regions.  There has been no conclusion
reached in regards to a policy, which by the way would be a global
policy and would have to pass through the ASO Address Council and the
ICANN Board.

Ray  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-multi6@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-multi6@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joseph T. Klein
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 10:03 AM
> To: multi6@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: regionalized addresses, RIRs, and table size
> 
> 
> IMHO - The concept of geographic based, or regionalized addresses
> recently mentioned seems to merit some review in light of recent
> other discussions.
> 
> Possible positive impacts of geographic based IPv6 addresses are:
> 
> * Ability to have smaller allocations within a region without
>     bloating the global rout table.
> 
> * It compliments regional peering.
> 
> * It tends to aggregate globally.
> 
> Negative
> 
> * Impact of networks without extra regional topologies
> 
> In gross terms the RIRs provide Continental regionalization.
> The inefficencies of shifting the aggregation level down to a
> metro region size may be offset by the gains in allowing small
> allocation for local multi-homed sites, the need to bloat
> ones allocation requirement to get a globally routable block
> being irrelevant under this scheme.
> 
> All the tricks required to do multihoming under the current
> address architecture seem to inject new complexities into
> routing and possibly the interface at the application layer.
> 
> Point:
> 
> All the multi-homed proposals seem a lot more of a problem
> than geographic based address allocation. Why not apply
> the analog of Occam's Razor to this problem. If geographic
> allocations provide the simple solution, why not reevaluate?
> --
> Joseph T. Klein
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