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Re: draft-ietf-ngtrans-ipv4survey-02.txt
- To: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net>
- Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ngtrans-ipv4survey-02.txt
- From: Mathew Richardson <mrr@nexthop.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:37:21 -0400
- Cc: v6ops@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:38:12 -0700
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> Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@iijlab.net> [Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 10:14:55AM +0900]:
<snip>
>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>%page
>
>32bit IDs
>
> A lot of protocols use 32bit IDs
> 32bit IDs = management headaches, scalability limitation
>
> What is the domain of uniqueness?
> OSPF - within an AS
> BGP - worldwide uniqueness needed
<snip>
I just thought it was worth mentioning that BGP doesn't require
a worldwide, unique ID. Indeed, it is my understanding that
even in actual operational deployment, rfc1918 addresses are
often used for BGP IDs.
mrr