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

Daniel Roesen dr at cluenet.de
Sun Nov 28 13:26:17 UTC 2004


On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 02:13:17PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> there are a lot of organizations now having PI without having an ASN 
> and beeing multihomed. a transition to v6 with this policy would make 
> things much worse for them, so why should they?

Agreed, but currently we are at "no PI for anybody but ISPs". How about
first solving the PI-denial problem for those who technically need it?
"Convenience PI holders" are a different problem space as you don't
have to account for routing in solving it.

> on the other hand, 1 ASN -> 1 v6 prefix does not necessarily mean 1 v6 
> prefix -> 1 ASN. might work out.

Exactly.


Regards,
Daniel

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