Address allocation schemes (Re: Naming and site-local)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On s�ndag, november 10, 2002 15:25:56 -0500 Dan Lanciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

As long as we are stuck with a totally non-scalable address allocation
system (remember, provider-based aggregated addressing consumes address
space *exponentially* in the number of providers in the service chain)
end users need some way to provision local systems with stable addresses.
So far, nobody has proposed a viable alternative to scoped addresses.

metro addressing?

btw, my current naive prediction of the way the Internet will evolve is that unless new invention occurs, the default-free zone will eventually be flat-routing on the number of ISPs in the world, and that this number will have 5 digits.

stable addresses for the lifetime of your ISP service contract seems like a not too terrible deal, if renumbering is easy.

for IPv6 address allocation schemes, check out http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv6-sparse.html for some recent thoughts.

Harald




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