[lir-wg] Discussion about RIPE-261

>> 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.

The problem is then just moved to

a) Maintaining your filters
b) Maintaining the allocations at the RIR level
c) Renumbering
d) What happens if you want to tweak your routing policies?
e) Your upstream need to carry all the routes if you want to achieve d)


>
> [..]
>> 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...?


With multi6 chair hat on I would say the problem is the opposite. 
However, we have yet to start working on the overall architecture. But 
that looks like it might start to happen as well.

- kurtis -