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Re: [RRG] End user network size [ [Q] draft-farinacci-lisp: IPv4 address depletion]



On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Eliot Lear wrote:
Hello,
I can't speak for anyone else but I find it
difficult to credit the notion that my requirements are unusual.


I think we need to tease out the SO from the HO. I suspect that behaviors will differ at least in terms of technology adoption lag. A pizza parlor that takes its voice over IP is going to need reliability because if it loses connectivity orders don't roll in. Whether that is done by redundancy or by a single highly reliable service will depend on the available services and their reputations. And I think the vote is still out on that.

A person sitting at home can get annoyed but is likely to make a convenience decision rather than maximizing profit. Some will, some won't.

People talk about the wildest things with IPv6: cellphones as routers connecting PANs, IPv6 addresses in every lightswitch, lightbulb, and carpet fiber, etc. and folk just nod their heads.

Yet people seem to think that mechanisms for connectivity will remain the same as in IPv4.

I think that in the long term, as people become more and more dependent on Internet-based technologies, it is likely that the demand for high reliability will be universal, not limited to businesses. Multi-homing will be the rule, not the exception, even for home users.

A routing solution that does not take this into account is going to hurt.

Regards,
-drc


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