> > > > I think that we should find a way to return to stable, globally-routable, > > provider-independent addresses that are allocated to homes & enterprises. > > Addresses that do not change when you change ISPs, and that cannot be > > changed by your ISP. Real PI addresses. Just like the original addresses > > allocated in IPv4. > > But the problem remains as hard as it was in 1992. We don't know how > to aggregate routes for such addresses, and we don't know how to scale > the routing system without aggregation. Solve either of those > problems and you're done.
I do not think that it is possible without counting routes in the billions. The thing which is doable is to assign moveable transport-bound addresses + independent non-globally-visible and non-globally unique permanent local addresses + NAT, with DNS names being the only fixed points in this permanently shifting environment. > > Brian Thanks, Aleksey > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
