Re: BCP for multisite multihoming

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On 21-mei-2007, at 23:43, David Conrad wrote:

> > At this point, I guess it's time to once again point out that all  
> > of this could be avoided if the IETF would simply overcome its  
> > irrational fear of geography-related routing: http://www.muada.com/ 
> > drafts/draft-van-beijnum-multi6-isp-int-aggr-01.txt

> The IETF is mostly irrelevant in this context.  The folks who have  
> to get over their fear (irrational or not) is the Internet service  
> provider community.

The trouble is, for this to work without too much trouble, address  
space needs to be given out with geography in mind. I don't think  
IANA and the RIRs are going to do that without the IETF telling them  
it's a good idea.

(The tragedy, of course, is that even if it's _not_ a good idea, that  
merely means it's no better than what we have today, so we're doing  
what we know doesn't work because we don't want to do something else  
for which we don't know if it works or not.)