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

Patrick W.Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Sun Sep 11 06:31:42 UTC 2005


On Sep 11, 2005, at 12:32 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
>> Content providers and other large business, without who's funds  
>> the Internet would fail, have a right not to be tied to a single  
>> provider.  And while I
>
> Giving each entity who wants to multihome an AS of their own and  
> own address block, doesn't scale. Think this in the way of each  
> home in the world being multihomed, it just doesn't scale.

We disagree.  And your hyperbole doesn't come close to proving your  
argument.


> IPv6 solved the addressing problem, not the routing problem, in the  
> current model. Let's try to fix the routing problem NOW instead of  
> 5-10 years down the road.

Yes, let's.

See you on shim6.

-- 
TTFN,
patrick




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