[lir-wg] RE: [ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Discussion about RIPE-261

>> Without tweaking routing, a more efficient way would be to use the 
>> fact
>> that IPv6 blocks are a lot larger than IPv4 blocks and simply give one
>> /32 to every LIR. I guess this would only work with RIPE who have the
>> concepts of LIRs but anyway.
>
> Yes, it would be very convenient. I might want to advocate extending 
> it to
> be "one /32 per 16-bit AS" and have the routing table grow to a 
> whopping
> 2^16 routes. That must be painful. Surely.

This has been proposed a number of times...

>
> 32-bit AS numbers is something I see taken care of by Moore, if we do 
> not
> find a new routing model, which of course is the elegant way, but for 
> now,
> brute force does it.


...but the counter argument is that 32-bits are just around the corner. 
The problem here is that they should be, but if they where we still are 
looking at at least 3-5 years of deployment.

- kurtis -