Routing and Addressing discussion in v6ops

[Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>]

Brian has suggested that much of this discussion belongs on the ram  
list. See

	https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ram

and please join it if you feel it is appropriate for you to do so.

Where IPv6 Operations has a useful role here, I think, is to bring  
out internet drafts and perhaps RFCs that inform that discussion.  
That may include reposting existing internet drafts, and may include  
new ones. The key thing, though, is that the question is not "what  
are the multihoming requirements for the entire Internet", but "what  
are the end-to-end addressing and routing requirements for" what I  
will call (for lack of better terminology, not become I like it all  
that well) "Transit ISPs, Access ISPs, large edge networks, mid-sized  
edge networks, and SOHO and residential networks?" Multihoming is  
part of that, but inter-ISP traffic engineering is also part, and  
there may be other parts. If two groups of people find that they have  
differing requirement sets, the solution is not to force them to come  
to some unrecognizable consensus, but to have them describe the part  
of the Internet they are describing requirements for and then  
accurately cull out those requirements. The classic example of such a  
divide that I mentioned in another note is the idea that some ISPs  
want PA addressing as a market lock, and some edge networks detest PA  
addressing because it is one. One useful note along those lines might  
be a well researched set of expectations of the Internet, including  
each of its various ecological zones, in ten, twenty, and fifty years.

Consider a call for submissions to have been placed.

Note, by the way, that I don't automatically assume that all  
individual submissions are intended or need to become working group  
documents, or that all internet drafts are intended or should become  
RFCs. You will note that I quite happily post internet drafts to pose  
a discussion and happily let them die if the discussion completes and  
they are no longer needed. This isn't a race to get written up in the  
record books. But useful contributions to those discussions will be  
welcomed, and if the WG is of the opinion that they should be  
archived I'm all for it.