[address-policy-wg] Re: [ipv6-wg] IPv6 micro allocation or something else?

Having listened for a while 'cause I am neither an expert in anycasting
nor in running name services for a large zone, I'd like to step back a
couple of yards/meters/<put your distance unit here>.

>From that perspective I seem to see 2 aspects in the recent discussion:

- you shall not receive address space for builing a service, you are to
  buy that from some "big-folk".

  This is an intersting point of view, and taken to the extreme will
  make us end up with a _very small_ number of _very big_ entities.

  Traditionally these things were called monopolies. Nothing I would be
  too happy to see coming back ;-)

- there has been th discussion regarding "anycast" but isnt this just
  a special(?) case of th PI-topic?

I might easily have overlooked something, pls. see my initial disclaimer.

Wilfried.


Hans Petter Holen wrote:
> Jørgen Hovland wrote:
> 
>>The next problem is that you want better redundancy(?). Then buy more
>>connectivity. If you for some reason can't afford better connectivity,
>>please look at my MCI example and put your servers elsewhere.
>>
>>  
> 
> What if I want to plan for more disasters than that ? Like MCI going out
> of business?
> 
> I guess I could agree with MCI to place some servers with their IP
> addresses outside their network and agree with other providers to carry
> my more specific routes. In order to have universal access and plan for
> any network failure I would have to sign such agreement with all ISPs.
> 
> This could be a business idea for somebody: to set up an "anycast
> registry" - sign agreement with all the major ISPs to not aggregate my
> addresses. Then I could offer a guaranteed minimum routability for
> thoose prefixes.
> 
> What we are discussing is really to make this mechanism available by
> addressing policy. Traditionally the RIRs does not set routing policy.
> 
> Hans Petter
> 
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