BBC does IPv6 ;) (Was: large multi-site enterprises and PI

Iljitsch van Beijnum iljitsch at muada.com
Sat Nov 27 18:12:01 UTC 2004


On 27-nov-04, at 18:59, Owen DeLong wrote:

>> All I hear is how this company or that enterprise "should qualify" 
>> for PI
>> space. What I don't hear is what's going to happen when the routing
>> tables grow too large, or how to prevent this. I think just about 
>> anyone
>> "should qualify", but ONLY if there is some form of aggregation 
>> possible.
>> PI in IPv6 without aggregation would be a bigger mistake than all 
>> other
>> IPv6 mistakes so far.

> And v6 without PI for will not get widespread adoption.

> Further, ULA will become de facto PI without aggregation.  Hence my 
> believe
> that ULA is a bad idea, and, my recommendation that we face the 
> reality that PI is an important thing (unless we want to replicate the 
> v4 NAT mess). As such, I'd much rather see us develop sane PI policy 
> than continue down the present road.

So what would be a sane PI policy? Apparently you don't want ULAs 
becoming de facto PI without aggregation, so do you agree that we need 
aggregation for PI?




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