Re: [address-policy-wg] Re: [GLOBAL-V6] Re: [ppml] Just say *NO* to PI space -- or how to make it less destructive

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:15:15PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> 
> Based on observations in v4 land, there are sites that specifically 
> want to do something other than the first option, and I specifically 
> want to preclude them from doing so.
> 
> For almost every site, a /48 is enough.  For those for whom it's not 
> enough, they already want separable advertisements for TE purposes 
> (e.g., multiple data centers), so they need either multiple /48's or 
> tricks like above in any case.

I think pekka already hinted at it, but people interested in this topic
really should look at:

http://www.iepg.org/march2006/BGP-2005.pdf

for some analysis of a situation that could get worse.

I think there's arguments both ways on this, but Geoff's talk was very
interesting and enlightening.

-- 
Tim/::1