[47907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interconnects
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Fri May 17 20:06:39 2002
From: bmanning@karoshi.com
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To: itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino)
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 00:03:56 +0000 (UCT)
Cc: bmanning@karoshi.com, sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan),
nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20020517235025.D7FD67BA@starfruit.itojun.org> from "Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino" at May 18, 2002 08:50:25 AM
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> > Often, participants expect to have an IP address assigned for their
> > use on an exchange. Usually these delegations are from a common
> > block. Where they are not, its hard to tell an exchange from a
> > bunch of point2point links. LINX and PAIX have IPv6 prefixes that
> > participants can use.
>
> or, use link-local address on IX switch as documented in
> draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-01.txt.
>
Unfortunatly, that technique does not have broad commercial
implementation. In addition, there was some pushback from
the IETF IDR wg on using this technique. So its still a bit
"iffy", although a very elegent "haq". (we used it in LA
for a while but could not get folks to adopt it.)
> itojun
--bill
