Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

Sat Sep 10 06:18:34 UTC 2005

[Perhaps this thread should migrate to Multi6?]

On Sep 9, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Daniel Golding wrote:

>> Getting back on-topic - how can this be? I thought only service  
>> providers
>> (with downstream customers) could get PI v6 space. Isn't this what  
>> policy
>> proposal 2005-1 is about? Can someone (from ARIN?) explain the  
>> current
>> policy?
>
> what if they didn't ask for a prefix but instead just hammered their
> providers for /48's? What's the difference to them anyway?  
> (provided we
> are just talking about them lighting up www.google.com in v6 of  
> course)
>
> If they wanted to start offering more 'services' (ip services  
> perhaps?)
> then they could say they were a 'provider' (All they need is a plan to
> support 200 customers to get a /32) and start the magic of /32-ness...

Suppose they not only have no plan but couldn't really put together a  
plan to support 200 customers?  Does this mean Google, or any other  
content provider, is "unworthy" of globally routeable space?

IPv6 is a nice idea, and as soon as people realize that ISPs are not  
the only organizations who have a need to multi-home - and I mean  
really multi-home, not stupid work-arounds - then it might actually  
start to happen.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick