[123381] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Mar 5 16:49:44 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B9126E0.5070607@bogus.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:48:31 -0500
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 5, 2010, at 10:44 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> If this is done right, direct assignment holders and ISPs are issued
> sufficiently large prefixes such that the prefix count per entity
> remains small.
This sort of assumes Internet connectivity models of today, specifically =
that most address assignments are singly-homed and thus can be =
aggregatedd within a larger provider independent block, will remain the =
model of tomorrow. I have some skepticism this will be true. When =
entertainment, communications, monitoring, etc. are all provided via =
always-on IP connectivity, I suspect you'll see folks have less =
tolerance for even momentary outages. And that's not even considering =
mobility solutions that rely on the routing system (e.g., stuff like =
Boeing's Connexion (RIP)).
We'll see I suppose.
Regards,
-drc
