My concern with this is that there are a lot more factors like the above one that we do not know the answer to - still we are already talking about solutions. I think we need to understand the problem first.One thing I have been think of. Do we know what the increased prefix-length does to implementations and the effect on convergence times? What I would like to do is have someone load a bunch of routers up with the current 130k routes but with a prefix length of 128n bits, what happens? What is the cost?
I don't know if anyone has studied this. It is a very interesting question.
I have the following things running around in my brain, and they aren't converging:
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Actually I think your list was a very good start! The more we can dissect the problem, and try and see the consequences of each of the pieces or the need for each piece, the better final solution we will be able to engineer. But this takes time and in the mean time we need to get a solution out that gives us some breathing space. The solution I suggested is also something that we can back out of. Just as we are doing with the 6bone addresses.So, where do we go from here?
What we discussed in Atlanta was that we needed a road-map. I took on the task of writing it and hope to get it out soon. What you wrote is an essential pice of this.
- kurtis -
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