[59056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Jun 13 02:38:40 2003
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 09:37:59 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> Why not use the highest-order 32 bits of an IPv6 address for
> interdomain routing... i.e., "overlay" them on IPv4 addresses
> and/or a 32-bit ASN? Yes, it smells of classful routing. Call
> me shortsighted, but how many billion interdomain routing
> policies do we really need?
>
One word; multihoming.
Pete
