[134952] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 prefix lengths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jan 13 04:50:50 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=81yNFseZc3YWeYDTTUAsNrvxDiu-xF8XnT2RK@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:49:46 -0800
To: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Most people do not know about the "multi-homing feature" designed into
> IPv6. Most people who do, seem to agree that it may not see enough
> practical use to have meaningful impact on routing table growth, which
> will no longer be kept in check by a limited pool of IP addresses and
> policies that make it a little difficult for a very small network to
> become multi-homed.
>
> This may be another looming IPv6 headache without a sufficient
> solution to set good practices now, before deployment sky-rockets.
>
It's well known that IPv6 will require a scalable routing solution and that
one has not yet been developed. I'll be surprised if there isn't more
progress out of IETF on this issue in the near future.
Owen
