[address-policy-wg] Proposal 2011-02 moving to Last Call

> Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> My worry horizon isn't the next 3 years, it's the next
> 10-50 years. We need to enable renumbering and multihoming
> without DFZ slot for end entity, and easing PI requirements
> just makes the chance of this actually being implemented
> that much less likely.

Sounds good, but you have it all backwards. The very reason we have IPv6
PI now is because easy renumbering and non-PI multihoming are red
herrings. For the last 15 years, the IETF has lived on a lie that these
features will be delivered. They have not.

I hate to sound brutal, but why should I believe that you will find the
Holy Grail that everyone else has been searching for over the last 15
years? I heard it all, I wrote part of it. There is NO solution to make
renumbering easy and there is NO solution nearly as good as PI for
multihoming.

Stop the vaporware. What you want does not exist. Unlike the IETF, ARIN
has recognized that fact, and this is why we have IPv6 PI; it does not
fulfill the initial IPv6 dream of a strongly aggregated, PA-only routing
table but it's the best we have today.

I'm tired of hearing "we need to". I have been hearing this for 15
years, enough of this. Oh, BTW, I tried too. You don't have anything;
when you do, deliver it and come back to us.


Michel.