Re: [GLOBAL-V6] PI space under IPv6

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>]

On 2007-01-17 17:42, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:38:14PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> > > Calling it "PI" or calling it "we open the policy so everybody can get
> > > their own independent address block" is technically pretty much the same.
> > Yes, technically it's called the swamp.
>
> No.  The swamp is "everybody just gets address space, without clear
> rules who and why".

Gert, I understand that viewpoint, but from the routing system's PoV
large numbers of non-aggregated prefixes are a swamp whatever rules
generated them.

     Brian
> People don't (usually) call today's IPv4 PI space "the swamp" either - that's
> reserved for, well, the 192 swamp...
>
> Gert Doering
>         -- NetMaster