[85818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Mon Oct 17 21:26:13 2005
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 01:25:42 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
Cc: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>, Per Heldal <heldal@eml.cc>,
North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <003f01c5d37d$1c11f9c0$680016ac@ssprunk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> What we need is an interdomain routing system that can either (a)
> drastically reduce the incremental cost of additional prefixes in the DFZ,
> or (b) move the exist cost out of the DFZ to the people who want to
> multihome. Both probably mean ditching BGP4 and moving to some sort of
> inter-AS MPLS scheme, but it will never see the light of day unless it
> allows leaving hosts and intra-site routing intact (i.e. hop-by-hop routing
> and a single prefix per site). This last is why shim6 is DOA.
or... drop the idea of "A"/"THE" default free zone and
recognize that the concept is based on a flawed assumption.
--bill
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> S
>
> Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart
> CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with
> K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
