Re: [GLOBAL-V6] PI space under IPv6

[Gert Doering <gert@Space.Net>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:58:16AM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2007-01-17 17:42, Gert Doering wrote:
> >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.

Indeed.  This is a "routing system PoV" and a "registration system PoV"
colliding here.

From a routing PoV, I'd call "deaggregated network blocks" fairly swampy
as well...

Gert Doering
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