Hi,
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:03:38AM -0700, ericlklein@softhome.net wrote:
> Gert Doering writes:
> >On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 02:24:20PM -0800, james woodyatt wrote:
> >>My response to that concern is that any organization too
> >>small to win a PI allocation [..]
> >
> >Just to clarify this: the problem with PI is not that it's hard to get
> >- the problem with PI in its current form (i.e.: "BGP routed, non -
> >aggregateable") is that it puts a burden on all ISP routers out there.
> >
> >In IPv6, "address space wastage" is much less of a problem than in IPv4 -
> >but "routing table slots" could be a much more serious issue.
>
> This has been a problem ever since we broke class full addresses, routing
> tables are bound to get very large as there are more multi-national and
> multi-carrier organizations out there. This is what justifies Cisco,
> Juniper, etc. in selling larger more powerful core and edge routers to the
> carriers and ISPs.
I understand how the market works :-)
The point is: IPv6 PI is considered one solution for the "I want to be
able to change providers without renumbering" problem space - and there
are a fair number of affected parties (namely: ISPs having to buy bigger
and bigger routers) that think that this is a non-scalable approach.
Gert Doering
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