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

Sun Sep 11 14:26:14 UTC 2005

On 11-sep-2005, at 8:31, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote:

>> 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.

Well then, why don't you do the following:

1. Give us a maximum number of multihomers.
2. Tell us how a routing table of that size (assuming 1 route per AS)  
will scale based on reasonable extrapolations of today's technology.