[lir-wg] Discussion about RIPE-261

Hi,

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 05:46:53PM +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote:
[..]
> No, more or less every BGP customer wants full routes. You
> assume that BGP customers with smallish bandwidths don't have a
> need for really _full_ routes. I think quite the contrary is
> true... the smaller the customer, the more he wants/needs to do
> traffic engineering.

I'm not going to argue that now, because that's a decision everybody has
to do for his network - and if his customers do not like that, they will
go to the competition.

Nevertheless, let's get back to the basic question - how shall we go ahead:

 [ ] continue the IANA->RIR->LIR allocation as it is now
 [ ] accept RIPE-261
 [ ] allocate bigger chunks IANA->RIR (/8 ?) and inside those chunks,
     use a binary chop algorithm similar to the one described in RIPE-261
 [ ] go for a full multi-level regional distribution, down to 
     "one /32 per LIR per country" (as detailed by Michael Py)
 [ ] something else

I do like a good rant as much as anybody else, but "BGP is broken" and
"you don't understand the way the Internet will work in 10 years" will not
really help us *get there*.  So please try to confine the discussion to
this topic, and try to get consensus how to move on.

There's no way to solve all problems in one big step.

Gert Doering
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