This is not the way "PI" is being understood in the realm that deals with them, the RIRs. "PI" does not only mean portability, it also means the routing mechanism that is (and always has been) in use, which is to announce the prefix in the global routing table, making it grow.
No matter what term I use, you seem to attach other attributes to it... What words would you like me to use for portable, globally-routable addresses that are assigned to an entity (home, enterprise, etc.) and that can be used by that entity regardless of the ISP from which they purchase their service, cannot be changed by the ISP, and don't need to change if the entity changes ISPs. I don't mean to imply, however, that these addresses would be randomly assigned, or that there wouldn't be some way (other than provider-based aggregation) to aggregate them. In fact, we would NEED to find a way to aggregate these addresses to make them useful/scalable. Possibilities for how to allocate aggregable provider-independent addresses could include (among other options) the geographical addresses that Tony Hain has proposed. What term should I use for that? Margaret -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
