[89167] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Fri Mar 3 21:06:08 2006
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 20:05:36 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake "Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>
>> I'm more confident that we'll find an answer
>> to the IDR problem sooner than we'll convince people to act in the good
>> of the community at their own expense.
>
> The solution to the IDR problem is to have a scalable routing
> architecture. Unfortunately, that involves change from the status quo,
> and thus altruistic action.
Not if/when folks understand that the implosion is imminent and the only way
to preserve their business is to build a better routing architecture. Only
when self-interest and altruism are coincident is the latter consistently
achieved.
> The alternative, of course, is to wait for IDR to implode and let the
> finger-pointing begin.
... which is what I expect to happen. A few folks will see it coming,
design a fix, and everyone will deploy it overnight when they discover they
have no other choice. Isn't that about what happened with CIDR, in a
nutshell?
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
