On 9/9/2011 12:19 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >>> as a vendor friend says, if ipv6 deploys, insha allah, we're gonna >>> be upgrading those routers to do real v6 forwarding. if it does not >>> deploy, you will be deploying massively bigger boxes to nat your ass >>> into hell. >> >> There are two possible results, it seems to me: >> >> 1. The cost of deploying IPv6 will "bury" the cost of doing BGPsec, so >> that BGPsec essentially becomes "free" in the IPv6 upgrade. >> >> 2. The cost of deploying BGPsec will be significant enough that it can't >> be "buried," in any other costs. >> >> The question is --which is true? > > as i have no data, any guess i make would be bullshit, would it not?
Does anyone have the data needed to answer which is true? My guess is based on the cost of hardware in general --even small hardware costs don't normally end up being "swamped"-- and the cost of network convergence times, etc. Using different assumptions, you can come to different conclusions. I don't know how you can build a study that would tell you which set of assumptions is "correct." OTOH, it would be interesting to try. Russ _______________________________________________ sidr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sidr
