[address-policy-wg] Policy proposal: #gamma IPv6 Initial Allocation Criteria

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:27:51 +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote:
>Name the engineering problems of end-user PI. (Un)fortunately nobody
>was yet able to show convincing prove that there IS a problem. Stop
>FUDding.
Full Ack.

And no router vendor would be so stupid and blame itself
not beeing able to route additional 20K IPv6 prefixes.

>IETF is nowhere near any solution. They are as far away from it as they
>can be. Will probably take another few years to finally realize that.
Full Ack.

The reason is fundamental and it is not a good idea
to make policies against mathematical and physical laws ...

>A sensible "separated locator and idenfication" approach would need a
>complete revamp of the operating model and (and that's the big thing)
>operating systems L3/L4 stacks. Won't happen, so shim6 will be a crude
>hack, attacking only part of the requirement space.
Full Ack.

At the end of the day, there is the unique and globally routable address.

We already *have* a "separated locator and idenfication" system,
it is called DNS. The advantages and disadvantages are well known.

Greetings
Oliver



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