Re: [RRG] Renumbering...

[Scott Brim <swb@employees.org>]

Excerpts from Noel Chiappa on Fri, Sep 05, 2008 10:57:42AM -0400:
> - a) stop accepting/advertising PI addresses
> - b) charge for accepting/advertising PI addresses
> - c) deploy some sort of jack-up system outside the customer-owned/managed
> 	part of the network
> - d) buy stock in Cisco/Juniper/etc so that they'll get at least some return
> 	on the large checks they are going to have to write to them

> As for c), I have heard that most ISP's aren't at all interested in
> one of the more fully-worked jack-up proposals (although that may
> change down the road), so I'm wondering if that's really viable.

> Am I missing something? (I'm not trying to rain on everyone here,
> just trying to be realistic and hard-nosed - the ~15 year history of
> IPv6 shows us what happens when we're not sufficiently realistic and
> hard-nosed.)

(c) doesn't have to be deployed by the core ISPs ("outside the
customer-owned/managed part of the network"), it can be deployed by
the sites themselves.  

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