[GLOBAL-V6] Re: up a few thousand meters

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

just to clarify a few things...:

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:08:45PM +0100, Daniel Karrenberg wrote:
> - address space, however large, is never quite as infinite as it may seem

I agree, though I do not see this as a problem in the context we're talking
about.  This is why the IPv6- and LIR-WG proposed a limit of 2000 allocations
per region.

> - V6 per-se does *not at all* solve the routing (table) problem

Yep.

> - proper trade-offs between conservation, aggregation 
>   and ease of obtaining address space are curcuial, 
>   but not easily achieved/agreed 
>   and vary with time as technology develops

Agreed.  As some of us think it would be a good thing to push IPv6
onwards, we de-emphasize conservation right now, and emphasize 
easy access to address space.  As for aggregation, I agree that it
is important, but I don't see any workable approach different to
Arano-san's proposal.

> - proper registration data is *crucial* for problem tracking 
>   and *security*, read: routing authentication
> - you can only usefully keep registration data at a neutral registry
> - it is *extremely hard* to clean up registration data that has not
>   been properly collected and/or maintained

I strongly second this - if I ever implied that I don't think this is
important, it was a misunderstanding.  I *want* to see contact data for
all IPv6 networks allocated and/or assigned in the RIR databases.

> We have learned most of this by experience, let's not unlearn it.

But let's rethink whether all of our experience is fully appropriate 
in changed circumstances.

Gert Doering
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