[lir-wg] Discussion about RIPE-261

Hi,

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 03:03:24PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Can anyone tell me why an IP address should be geograhically
> significant in this way? Doesn't this open a can of worms of
> potential abuse all over the place?

One motivation I can see for it is to permit more-specific announcements
inside a region (because it's interesting to find "the shortest way"
to the destination network) but to summarize the routing information
"from the outside".

For us, as a small german ISP, it's not really important who is hooked
up where in the US or in the AP region - so a summary route "all this
stuff is in the US, send this to our upstream" (simplified) is likely
to suit us fine.

[..]
> Why do we try to fix an engineering problem (scaling global routing
> mesh (BGP)) with unworkable IP address distribution policies???

Because nobody came up with a fix to the BGP scalability issues yet...?

[..]
> What point does it make that we have got an IP address space so
> large so we can assign an IP number to every grain of sand on this
> planet if it can't keep the number?

IPv6 routing, using todays technology, is only going to work if you can
have enough hierarchy in the routing system.  And yes, this means 
"renumber".

(Apart from that, IPv6 is not about numbering grains of sand :) )

Gert Doering
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