[85586] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Roesen)
Fri Oct 14 11:27:34 2005
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:27:06 +0200
From: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:57:59AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote:
> The big gap in the multi-homing story for v6 is for end sites, since
> those are specifically excluded by all the RIRs' policies on PI
> addressing right now. Shim6 is intended to be a solution for end sites.
But isn't a solution for many (most?) of them, EVEN if it would be
universally implemented everywhere[tm].
This is a known problem, and it was decided to aim for a 80%[1] solution
(80% of the problem space, not 80% of folks in need). There is still not
half of an idea for a solution for the full problem in sight.
Best regards,
Daniel
[1] number made up
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