[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing

Kurt Erik Lindqvist (kurtis at kurtis.pp.se) wrote:
> >>>>Changing over to IPv6 *is* painful.
> >>>
> >>>... but should be considered rather soon !
> >>>
> >>>just my .2 cents
> >>>
> >>
> >>First we need to get it to work.
> >>
> >
> >Hi kurtis,
> >
> >what is _not_ working according your opinion ?
> 
> Tools is the first that comes to mind. If you want the larger carriers 
> to use it they need to adopt their provisioning systems, but that is 
> not a fault of IPv6. I think we need to urgently solve multihoming, 
> some PI like mechanism, and I think we should take out site-locals, or 
> at least minimize their use until it's to late and we are stuck with 
> the RFC1918 problem and applications that won't work.

Okay, so let's address this one by one:

- what ideas do we have regarding multihoming, what is/should be
  deprecated and what preferred ?

> That is a problem that will be solved when there is enough demand.
> 

the usual chicken/egg problem :-)

--jan

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