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Re: [GLOBAL-V6] PI space under IPv6



> > People don't (usually) call today's IPv4 PI space "the swamp" either -
> > that's reserved for, well, the 192 swamp...
> 
> 	Right, and that (the 192...) is analogous to what is being built for
> 	IPv6 as we speak. The salient point is that it (PI space) has the
> 	potential to be/is unaggregatable space.

aggregatability only matters to the owners and operators of the core.
provider independence only matters to the owners and operators of the edge.
this is classic us-vs-them economics.  and this thread is a classic lead-in
to the "EID vs. RID" re-debate.  is that online anywhere, so that we can
point newcomers to it, rather than re-debating it every few months forever?