So don't you think the decoupling is a good thing? I can see benefits.
Dino
On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:53 AM, David Conrad wrote:
Dino,
On Jan 4, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Dino Farinacci wrote:
If we want to use ID in the ACL, should it also have some
structure in
semantics? since the flat ID will cause a scaling issue with ACL
and a huge
burden for manually configuration.
If EID-prefixes are allocated from RIRs, we can have structure.
Depends on the allocation rules for EIDs, which obviously don't
exist now. Right now, the RIRs try to juggle conservation of
address space with conservation of 'routing slots' with a bias
towards the latter, resulting in allocations of power-of-2 size
blocks aligned on CIDR boundaries. If the RIRs were to allocate
EIDs, they would not need to be concerned about conservation of
'routing slots', hence non-CIDR aligned and non-power-of-2 blocks
can be allocated. If this isn't what people want, the RIR public
policy process would have to be engaged to come up with the EID
allocation rules.
Regards,
-drc
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