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Re: [GLOBAL-V6] PI space under IPv6



On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:47:57PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:
> > > 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.  

	Yep, well said.

> is that online anywhere, so that we can point newcomers to it,
> rather than re-debating it every few months forever? 

	Excellent suggestion.

	--dmm

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