Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 13-Sep-2005, at 03:28, Crist Clark wrote: Igor Gashinsky wrote: [snip] Moving everything to the end-hosts is simply not a good idea imho. But isn't that what IP is supposed to be about? Smart endpoints, dumb network (a.k.a. the stupid network)? And with many peer-to-peer

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Christian Kuhtz
Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:41:51 -0400 John Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I'll be blunt. As long as that question is up in the air, none of the major content providers are going to do anything serious in

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Christian Kuhtz wrote: Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:41:51 -0400 John Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I'll be blunt. As long as that question is up in the air, none of the major content

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:45:31 +0300, Joe Abley said: And with many peer-to-peer applications, isn't the traffic engineering already effectively performed at the edge? already performed ineffectively at the edge is probably a better description of the true state of affairs. Remember that

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread David Barak
--- Mikael Abrahamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shimming model is a way to solve this by the endsystems knowing about multihoming, instead of the network. I personally think this is a better idea and scales much better. Let's have the network moving packets as its primary goal,

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Daniel Senie
At 10:17 AM 9/10/2005, Joe Abley wrote: On 10-Sep-2005, at 09:18, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [Perhaps this thread should migrate to Multi6?] multi6 hasn't existed for some time. The level-3 shim approach to multi-homing that was the primary output of multi6 is being discussed in shim6.

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13-sep-2005, at 0:22, Igor Gashinsky wrote: :: I must be missing something, but there's a good chance that the requester is :: going to have to wait for a timeout on their SYN packets before failing over :: to another address to try. Or is the requester supposed to send SYNs to all

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Daniel Senie
At 03:19 PM 9/13/2005, you wrote: So where were you the past years in multi6 and months in shim6? Please be part of the solution and not part of the problem. (That goes for John Payne and Daniel Senie too.) I was there in the beginning for Multi6. When I saw the direction(s) that were being

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread John Payne
On Sep 13, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 13-sep-2005, at 0:22, Igor Gashinsky wrote: :: I must be missing something, but there's a good chance that the requester is :: going to have to wait for a timeout on their SYN packets before failing over :: to another address to

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Tony Li
Waitaminute - isn't the whole *purpose* of layer 3 that the network makes these routing decisions? If there are N routers in an ISP, I would expect the ISP to connect to X endsystems, where 10N X 1000N. How does knowing about X endsystems scale better than knowing about N

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13-sep-2005, at 21:58, Daniel Senie wrote: So where were you the past years in multi6 and months in shim6? Please be part of the solution and not part of the problem. (That goes for John Payne and Daniel Senie too.) I was there in the beginning for Multi6. When I saw the direction (s)

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 13-sep-2005, at 0:22, Igor Gashinsky wrote: (firmly in the shim6 does not adress *most* of the issues camp) So where were you the past years in multi6 and months in shim6? Please be part of the solution and not part of the problem.

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Tony Li
The rules today have not resulted in and overly huge number of multihomers. I suspect that is a matter of perspective. Even if 10% of all sites are multihomed, and we continue in the IPv4 multihoming model, then we will end up with slow exponential growth of the routing table which

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-13 Thread Jason Schiller
on Sat Sep 10 03:39:59 2005 Christopher L. Morrow writes On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [Perhaps this thread should migrate to Multi6?] perhaps... then jason can argue this instead of me :) The most basic question is if there will be a problem if we solve the

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11-sep-2005, at 20:59, Brandon Butterworth wrote: So how do you know it's 4 million and not 4.1? Could be 4.1 or even 4.2. And therein lies the problem. I'm assuming those working on 4byte ASs know, if it's more we'll have to migrate again which would be silly so soon I don't think

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread John Payne
On Sep 12, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I'll be blunt. As long as that question is up in the air, none of the major content providers are going to do anything serious in the IPv6 arena. Well, I have no evidence of them doing anything with IPv6 anyway, so I don't know if

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Igor Gashinsky
:: Well, I have no evidence of them doing anything with IPv6 anyway, so I :: don't know if this makes a difference. :: :: I have a very strong feeling that part of the lack of content providers on :: IPv6 is due to the lack of multihoming. :: :: Whilst this thread is open... perhaps someone

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Brandon Butterworth
So how do you know it's 4 million and not 4.1? Could be 4.1 or even 4.2. And therein lies the problem. My point, we don't know so some arbitrary or technology limits will have to do as there isn't financial reason to make something bigger in any event, 32-bit AS numbers allow for 4

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:41:51 -0400 John Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 12, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I'll be blunt. As long as that question is up in the air, none of the major content providers are going to do anything serious in the IPv6 arena.

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Tony Li
Whilst this thread is open... perhaps someone can explain to me how shim6 is as good as multihoming in the case of redundancy when one of the links is down at the time of the initial request, so before any shim-layer negotiation happens. I must be missing something, but there's a good

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Tony Li
Or, on top of that, how traffic engineering can be performed with shim6.. -igor (firmly in the shim6 does not adress *most* of the issues camp) Shim6 doesn't do what most end user sites would like to think of as traffic engineering. For a multihomed site, traffic engineering is about

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Igor Gashinsky
:: All in all, site traffic engineering is NOT going to be an easy problem :: to solve in a hop-by-hop forwarding paradigm based on clever :: manipulation of L3 locators. Architecturally, what one would really :: like is to not worry about the traffic engineering problem per-se. :: Rather, what

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Crist Clark
Igor Gashinsky wrote: [snip] Moving everything to the end-hosts is simply not a good idea imho. But isn't that what IP is supposed to be about? Smart endpoints, dumb network (a.k.a. the stupid network)? -- Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Globalstar

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread John Payne
On Sep 12, 2005, at 7:43 PM, Tony Li wrote: Rather, what is needed is a mechanism that allows congestion control and mechanisms to feed into the address selection algorithms, so that when a link does become saturated, some traffic (but not all! ;-), shifts to alternate addresses. Not

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-12 Thread Igor Gashinsky
:: We also like that fact that we can change our :: announcements so others can only use prefix X through transit provider Y :: and not transit provider Z, unless transit provider Y goes away (those 2 :: are obviously not the only uses of such policies, but are just examples). :: :: ::

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Content providers and other large business, without who's funds the Internet would fail, have a right not to be tied to a single provider. And while I The shimming model is a way to solve

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:32:58AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Giving each entity who wants to multihome an AS of their own and own address block, doesn't scale. Think this in the way of each home in the world being multihomed, it just doesn't scale. IPv6 solved the addressing

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Joe Abley
On 10-Sep-2005, at 21:42, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Sep 10, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Joe Abley wrote: Yes, according to the current RIR policies. [So the determination of unworthy above has been made, in effect, by RIR members.] And this is why v6 has failed and will continue to fail.

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11-sep-2005, at 8:31, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: Giving each entity who wants to multihome an AS of their own and own address block, doesn't scale. Think this in the way of each home in the world being multihomed, it just doesn't scale. We disagree. And your hyperbole doesn't come close

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread David Conrad
Hi, On Sep 11, 2005, at 12:52 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: This says that although there are 170k prefixes on the Internet, there are only 20k entities who actually need to announce IP space. There is only one explanation for such a large difference (8.5x) between these two numbers,

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 11, 2005, at 10:26 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 11-sep-2005, at 8:31, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: Giving each entity who wants to multihome an AS of their own and own address block, doesn't scale. Think this in the way of each home in the world being multihomed, it just doesn't

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 11, 2005, at 12:51 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Sep 11, 2005, at 12:52 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: This says that although there are 170k prefixes on the Internet, there are only 20k entities who actually need to announce IP space. There is only one explanation for such a large

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Brandon Butterworth
1. Give us a maximum number of multihomers. 4 Million 2. Tell us how a routing table of that size (assuming 1 route per AS) will scale based on reasonable extrapolations of today's technology. SUP720-3BXL says 1M (500K v6) now, doesn't seem too much of a stretch to 4M over many years

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11-sep-2005, at 19:06, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: 1. Give us a maximum number of multihomers. Unknown. Somewhat less than the number of hosts on the Internet, somewhat more than one. My bet is closer to the latter than the former. Well, if you don't know the number of multihomers

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 11-sep-2005, at 20:34, Brandon Butterworth wrote: 1. Give us a maximum number of multihomers. 4 Million So how do you know it's 4 million and not 4.1? 2. Tell us how a routing table of that size (assuming 1 route per AS) will scale based on reasonable extrapolations of today's

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Brandon Butterworth
1. Give us a maximum number of multihomers. 4 Million So how do you know it's 4 million and not 4.1? Could be 4.1 or even 4.2. I'm assuming those working on 4byte ASs know, if it's more we'll have to migrate again which would be silly so soon So about 4M it must be. We know that 125k

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:32:58AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Giving each entity who wants to multihome an AS of their own and own address block, doesn't scale. Think this in the way of each home in the world being multihomed, it just

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:51:47AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: Hi, On Sep 11, 2005, at 12:52 AM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: This says that although there are 170k prefixes on the Internet, there are only 20k entities who actually need to announce IP space. There is only one

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: cause each end node knows about the upstream network 'problems' so well? giving them full routes too are we? ( I don't want to fight this arguement here, I'm just making a rhetorical question, one I hope there will be a presentation this

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
] Fecha: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:42:33 -0400 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google] On Sep 10, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Joe Abley wrote: [Perhaps this thread should migrate to Multi6?] multi6 hasn't existed for some time

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], JORDI PALET MARTINEZ w rites: I don't think is failing ... On the other way around: looking at the adoption perspectives and compared with other technologies, transition stages, and so on, is going much faster than expected ... About 4 years ago, I predicted that

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-11 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: An obvious corollary to this is that ISPs should be planning their v6 offerings now, too. This means routers, databases, operation support systems, CPE for cable and DSL ISPs, etc. Those that don't are likely to find themselves bypassed.

Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
[Perhaps this thread should migrate to Multi6?] On Sep 9, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Daniel Golding wrote: Getting back on-topic - how can this be? I thought only service providers (with downstream customers) could get PI v6 space. Isn't this what

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-10 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [Perhaps this thread should migrate to Multi6?] perhaps... then jason can argue this instead of me :) On Sep 9, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Daniel Golding wrote: Getting back on-topic - how can

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-10 Thread Joe Abley
On 10-Sep-2005, at 09:18, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: [Perhaps this thread should migrate to Multi6?] multi6 hasn't existed for some time. The level-3 shim approach to multi-homing that was the primary output of multi6 is being discussed in shim6. Suppose they not only have no plan but

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-10 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Google == AS 15169 which has 100 prefixes announced in my BGP. I suspect they could qualify for IPv6 address space under any criteria. I know they could arrange to qualify, simply by buying an appropriate ISP. They've got the cash. most

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 10, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Joe Abley wrote: [Perhaps this thread should migrate to Multi6?] multi6 hasn't existed for some time. The level-3 shim approach to multi-homing that was the primary output of multi6 is being discussed in shim6. Guess I'm behind. I'll have to subscribe to

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-10 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Sep 10, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: most likely, but I was really saying: Do they even NEED PI space? (for this discussion, or rather the start of it, I don't think so... I disagree. (Or, more precisely, I don't think _anyone_ needs v6 space right now 'cause it

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-10 Thread John Curran
on topic of IPv6 end-user assignments and value of multihoming At 6:23 AM -0400 9/10/05, Marshall Eubanks wrote: However, there are two proposals to ARIN to allow direct micro assignments to end sites, these are supposed to be merged into one by the 16th of this month, so people interested

Re: Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

2005-09-10 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Content providers and other large business, without who's funds the Internet would fail, have a right not to be tied to a single provider. And while I Giving each entity who wants to multihome an AS of their own and own address block, doesn't