[address-policy-wg] IPv6 access to K-root

jeroen at unfix.org (Jeroen Massar) wrote:

> >Like said - it should have been underway already...
> 
> As you so 'badly' want one, write something up and describe exactly what
> you want, now you are just running up to the walls.

Maybe my english didn't make that clear: I have seen this proposal,
and I've just been told it hadn't been submitted yet.


> BGP is only 'limited' in the number of updates that can be handled. The
> likelyhood that more entries cause more updates will rise, next to that,
> we only have max ~60k ASN's anyway at this moment, thus even if every
> ASN would announce 1 IPv6 prefix it would stop at max ~60k entries...

The Sup720++ CAM tables are limited to 256K v4 entries, unless I've
gotten that wrong and the boards also limit BGP paths (which I don't
believe.


> >... as long as your transit providers know each other, agree not to
> >filter, and you're happy with the fallback connectivity through the
> >block owner. We're in a lucky position, not everybody is.
> 
> You can also ask the other transit upstream to announce your /48 for
> you.

Mind you, I prefer to advertise myself, and, as discussed, am in the
lucky position that my transit ISPs are reasonable.


> Nevertheless, for real end-sites, like my house, most websites and
> other 'endsites', if you want to multihome, have some patience shim6 to
> be done or as Gert said, make a really neat proposal.

See above. I consider this "house" an end site that unfortunately
needs real multihoming nonetheless. But I can live with a /48 PA
multihoming solution. It works well.

I do need a solution for the anycast thing and shim6 will not do it.


> Multihoming on IP is silly in most cases anyway, because most of the
> time the cable-path is the same, thus one single silly fiber cut would
> take you out anyhow...

We have taken great care that exactly this is untrue.

> and if you can pay for multiple differentiated
> uplinks you are most likely also big enough to claim you (will) have 200
> endsites.

End sites are no ISPs. Try as I might, I will not have different companies
as my customers. There seem to be different kinds of end-sites, maybe we
are one type and you're the other. ;-)

Elmar.

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