|Okay, but the scalability pressure will force the affected ISPs to act |in some way, however miserly. So we could focus on giving them a good |option that will lead to a scalable Internet. This would come in the |form of an ISP-based scalability solution.
If the ISP's were going to act unilaterally, they would have done so by now. They have trivial mechanisms to force aggregation of more specific prefixes and have not deployed these. In short, ISP's expect others to solve this issue for them. They push on both vendors and on the I*TF to address this issue. |But the incentive to deploy for hosts(multihoming options and mobility) |is not to solve the problem(routing scalability). Thus, what |happens if |the routing tables grow too big for some ISPs to handle before enough |hosts adopt whatever host-based solution we propose? ISP's will then deply prefix filters (ala 1992), with concurrent loss of Internet access/services to some parties. Tony _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
