> 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.
Provider independent. Hey, that is the definition. > 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? "Aggregatable PI addresses", which is however kind of a contradiction in terms. Addresses are as much aggregatable as their assignment reflects the underlying topology, which includes the split of the network among various providers. By definition, a structure that is independent of providers can only be a gross approximation of the topology, and as such can only have crude aggregation characteristics. Geographical addresses are one such crude approximation of the topology. -- Christian Huitema -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
