[151178] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Mon Mar 12 23:34:27 2012
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
In-Reply-To: <D4E0DEEC-9769-43E9-9EE6-89266AB9F386@muada.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:33:29 +1100
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 13/03/2012, at 8:14 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 12 Mar 2012, at 21:15 , William Herrin wrote:
>=20
>> Not at all. You just build a second tier to the routing system.
>=20
> It's so strange how people think a locator/identifier split will solve =
the scalability problem. We already have two tiers: DNS names and IP =
addresses. So that didn't solve anything. I don't see any reason a =
second second tier would.
I think you have encountered an article of faith Iljitsch :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirectio: Any problem can be solved =
by adding another layer of indirection.
