[GLOBAL-V6] Re: Válasz: [GLOBAL-V6] Re: Válasz: [GLOBAL-V6] RE: How to reduce the junk applications?

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:46:31PM +0100, turchanyi.geza@ln.matav.hu wrote:
> I agree, ONE DAY setting up IPv6 only services MUST be possible. However, I do
> not think that we can apply this assumption today. Most probably not in the next
> two years to come.
> 
> The question here is how to enable the transition period for most of the ISPs as
> soon as possible, without creating too big mess.
> 
> If you end up with a heavily scattered address space, then the IPv6 transition
> is killed before it has been completed. Everybody will have addresses, just the
> routing will be missing.

Just count the numbers.  At maximum, if every ISP that's out there today
and already is a LIR, will get their own /32, we will have about 8000
routes (as that's the number of ASes currently active in the global table).

So what?  This will not kill routing.

Gert Doering
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