IPv6 policy and Supernational-LIRs

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Fredrik Widell wrote:

> On Wed, 29 May 2002, Kurt Erik Lindqvist KPNQwest wrote:
> To me, it would make sense to allocate a /3x to each and every one who has
> an AS#, and requests ipv6-space, then we would NOT have any problem like the
> above or with 'multihoming' either. It is not like the adresses would be used-up
> with this scenario..

Providers state that aggregation/hierarchy is needed because of faster
convergence
time and less wasted resources (among other valid reasons).

Customers appear to believe that providers are less reliable than the 
other business critical services they may depend on (read the SLA offered
to clients and the financial penalties applied for outages, draw a
conclusion) 

>From an engineering perspective the providers are correct in their
conclusion.
>From a commercial perspective the customers seem justified in theirs.

It does seem as if the desire to multihome (as a (perceived|actual)) form
of risk management will continue to be an issue for the M/L Enterprise
which needs to be addressed by the SP community. Rightly or wrongly.
A-


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