[75474] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Nov 13 12:53:33 2004
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 09:52:44 -0800
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@mail.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I guess the IETF and router vendors prefer larger fields than
> having LIRs do the work they are supposed to do.
i don't think i would phrase it just that way.
it may be that the rirs, and the ivtf are not optimistic that
lirs will do it. and lirs, because of being nearer the folk
holding the resources, are the ones who can make the local
phone calls. so i agree, in many cases, it is the lirs who
need to do the work. and where's the profit for them in that?
the root problem in this and in the strafing of the routing
table commons is that people are thinking locally and acting,
or not acting, globally. what they seem not to see is that
short term "where is the profit in that for me this quarter"
will add up to far greater opex and capex for them and for all
of us in the future.
randy
