On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:05 AM, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
> So even though we have solutions to allocate prefixes efficiently in > arbitrary home network topologies > We don't have solutions. We only have ideas on how solutions might be built, and it must be noted that those ideas have not been adopted by any WG so far. So I would say this statement is premature. > even though these solutions are just as easy to deploy as the solution > that wastes addresses, > Those solutions are not "just as easy to deploy", because they require more standardization and more sophisticated home router implemetations than the wasteful solution (which, I might add, is also being presented in the same working group). We may get there, but I think it's by no means guaranteed. Addressing policy cannot be shaped on what the IETF thinks might happen in the best case. It must be done taking into account real world constraints. If efficiently-addressed, routed home networks don't happen, then the only way to allow routed home networks is to use a hierarchical solution (which works today - it's what I have at home, using hardware that is already deployed in the high single digit millions of units).
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