Re: [RRG] Providers and providers

[David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>]

On Aug 20, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > > Large corporations that have large networks are ISPs.
> > Please define 'large'.
> Perhaps your question is a rhetorical device, and you're merely  
> trying to
> point out that how to define 'large company' is a tarpit.

Yep.  However, a more general point as any attempt to create an  
architecture that depends on some subjective term like 'large' is  
doomed to fail.  Since there is benefit from having connectivity/ 
provider independent addresses, there will always be pressure to  
liberalize the allocation policy, resulting in the exact same mess  
we're in now (if you'll remember, the original IPv6 allocation plan  
was to limit the total number of "top-level aggregators" to 8192).

And, of course, whether an organization is 'large' is irrelevant when  
it comes to whether or not the addresses for that organization are  
multi-homed.

Regards,
-drc


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