Re: [GLOBAL-V6] New draft available: IPv6 Address Allocation and Assignment Global Policy

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:06:07PM +0100, Niels Bakker wrote:
> Gert Doering writes:
> 
> > We are currently allocating 1/8th of the IPv6 space.  So if we *really*
> > get everything wrong, we can try 7 additional times. 
> 
> This argument always leaves me wondering what you plan to do with the
> existing routing table.  Dump it on some sort of flag day?  Carry twice
> the number of routes during a transition period?  Not really workable if
> you expect table growth to be the limiting factor, no?

I don't know what the limiting factor will be.

I'm mainly argueing that *conservation* is really a big non-issue here,
but *if* we are wrong in assuming this, we are able to try again.

As for the routing table growth, yes, this is a very tricky problem,
but it cannot be solved at RIR level - the RIRs can not decide who is
an "important ISP" and who is a "less important ISP that should 
prevented from having their own networks" (by being forced to use
upstream addresses from "important ISP" - renumbering is fairly easy 
for end sites, but a PITA for an ISP plus all his customers).

Gert Doering
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