[30918] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 allocatin (was Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Fri Sep 1 15:43:38 2000
From: "Christian Kuhtz" <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:39:32 -0400
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> > With 15 POPs spread throughout the US and Europe, and
> > more on the way, with exceedingly non-contiguous space obtained from 6
> > different upstreams, it would benefit ourselves as well as our many
> > providers to have our own PI space.
>
> I suspect the number of organizations who can claim "it would benefit
> ourselves as well as our many providers" will greatly exceed the number
> of available routing slots before IPv6 comes anywhere close to being
> significantly deployed.
So, how do we bring the operations reality and ivory tower approaches closer
together? Elegant complexity causes operational nightmares all of its own.
--
Christian Kuhtz, Sr. Network Architect Architecture, BellSouth.net
<ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm Atlanta, GA
"Speaking for myself only."
