[84323] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sun Sep 11 10:27:16 2005
In-Reply-To: <3F3115DA-FD92-4F71-A366-E4FD91C5FBE9@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:26:14 +0200
To: "Patrick W.Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 11-sep-2005, at 8:31, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote:
>> Giving each entity who wants to multihome an AS of their own and
>> own address block, doesn't scale. Think this in the way of each
>> home in the world being multihomed, it just doesn't scale.
> We disagree. And your hyperbole doesn't come close to proving your
> argument.
Well then, why don't you do the following:
1. Give us a maximum number of multihomers.
2. Tell us how a routing table of that size (assuming 1 route per AS)
will scale based on reasonable extrapolations of today's technology.
