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> If we had new routing technology that could handle globally routable > provider independent addresses, then it would have to be deployed in > most routers in the Internet before it would be useful. Probably all > routers from the site boundary to the core of the Internet. Given > that I suspect any solution in this area would not be an incremental > changes to a routers implementation (i.e., not another BGP extension), > perhaps even changes to the routers route lookup engines (in hardware > in many cases) this would likely take a long time to accomplish. > Also, a bit of a chicken and egg deployment problem that everyone > working on IPv6 understands too well. We will need to go through this anyway. Local scoped addresses will probably make that transition even harder. > We don't have any structure in place to allocate and register these > types of addresses. The registries might be able to do it, but as > they are currently structured they are mostly focused on ISPs, not > individual sites. This would require some major changes in their > structure and perhaps funding models. Right now every site would have > to be an LIR. Erh, no. Perhaps every enterprise the sites belong to though. > Assuming routing technology was available and all of the routers were > modified to support the new routing technology, then there would have > to be some incentive for the ISP to want to carry these type of > routes. They are great for the customers, but it makes it easy for > their customers to switch ISPs. We have seen how well the phone > providers have embraced provider independent phone numbers. They only > "agreed" to support them after governmental action. This has not been a problem in most European countries that I know of. But I am no expert on this. I know that in Sweden it is currently the other way around. - - kurtis - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBPzj8wqarNKXTPFCVEQL1iACfYlhbH1E/PWlb/+/XogOp/9M9proAoMl8 goDWYdJi5Z+ds0MsxXJM0sZV =iDGL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
