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Re: draft-baker-v6ops-13-multihoming-analysis-00

concatenating the ASN into the IP address would certainly be one way of providing a scalable routing locator. Check the archives, and you will find that at one time (perhaps a decade back) I suggested that as a quick method for the initial assignment of addresses - simply give every current AS a prefix numerically related to its AS number. I don't believe that to be required for scalability, however, which is why I don't bring it up in the document. What I do see as required is the ability to limit the number of prefixes advertised to a number comparable to the number of assigned AS numbers, and constrain those to people who actually need an AS number from a BGP perspective.
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On Dec 6, 2006, at 10:55 PM, Peter Sherbin wrote:


Fred,

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p.3 says "Fortune 500" while p. 20 has "Fortune 1000".
p.18 above the diagram "the links from B<->A and B<->A were shorter", why two B<->A? p.19 near the top "issues... relate to human stupidity". How about "human error"? p.27 section 5. "From the author's perspective" when the draft has two authors.
This is a good summary of what is going on plus projections. But overall it feels that the current architecture constrains the market and it does not scale. The draft illustrates the need for flexible PI addressing with the model such as "a service domain. That domain could as easily be the customers of a cooperative as the citizens of a government". Any given tax authority is a good proxy for such cooperative and it could assume a mechanical function of the distribution and 
management of PI.
Providers would get through RIR an independent set of geographically rigid aggregation points, eg. ASN. A new protocol could be needed to combine PI+ASN for 
scalable routing(?)

Thanks,

Peter
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