Robin Whittle wrote:
I assume we want hosting companies to use the new map-encap type of address space.
There are several reasons hosting companies should not and would not use such type of addresses. 1. There are very few hosting companies compared to the number of end users. Currently something like 4 orders of magnitude. 2. The vast majority of DNS zones are served by DNS servers at hosting companies. This is especially important if new address architecture uses existing DNS infrastructure. 3. It is unlikely that any encap or remapping system will be as reliable as traditional routing. Which leads to 4:
If there is any significant (however defined) measurable loss of responsiveness due to initial packet delays in the new type of address space, the hosting companies would avoid it like the plague. They would promote their servers as running on genuine PI address space, not that second-rate, cheap, often a little slower to start-up, type of LISP-ALT address space.
Any perceived deficiency will make it a non-starter for hosting companies. 5. Most hosting companies today have direct allocations from RIR's. - Kevin -- to unsubscribe send a message to rrg-request@psg.com with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg