[lir-wg] Discussion about RIPE-261

>  it might blow up the IPv6 table to the number of currently active
>    IPv4 ASes.  That would be about 15.000, and shouldn't hurt any

...and currently that would be a good thing.

>    decent router (yes, my 2503 will not like it, but then, I always
>    knew that it's not a proper core router anymore).

I've got a Linux kernel for it...;-)

>  - if there really starts a big run to IPv6 multihoming, it will 
> increase
>    pressure on the AS allocation/conservation policy (and we'll 
> eventually
>    run out of 16 bit ASNs, which would hurt).

We will run out of them anyway, but this might speed things up. But it 
would also help speed up deployment of IPv6.


> Also, it might not even be sufficient - some companies might still want
> to be "really, really independent" and get their own address block.

Agreed.

>
> The *benefit* of "/48 multihoming" is that you can filter those routes
> if you don't want to see them - then your routers will send packets
> down the /32 road, and eventually hit a router that knows about the /48
> (which is why I consider this approach superior to "everybody gets a
> independent prefix", which I can't properly aggregate).  Which brings
> us back to "why I want ONE regional block per RIR" - that's why.

Yup.

- kurtis -
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