[118127] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 internet broken, Verizon route prefix length policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Mon Oct 12 22:21:45 2009
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:20:40 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
In-Reply-To: <4AD3E230.4070404@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> It's not the RIR's fault. IPv6 wasn't designed with any kind of workable
> site multihoming. The only goal seems to have been to limit /32's to an
> "ISP" but screw you if you aren't one. There was no alternative and it's
> been how long now? PI, multihoming, multicast, etc. is reality because
> the internet is now Very Serious Business for many, many people.
IPv6 -policy- wasn't initially designed for any workable site multihoming.
The addressing and BGP stuff works fine for it. Its just not "different"
to the issues faced with IPv4.
adrian
