Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

Tue Mar 13 03:33:29 UTC 2012

On 13/03/2012, at 8:14 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> On 12 Mar 2012, at 21:15 , William Herrin wrote:
> 
>> Not at all. You just build a second tier to the routing system.
> 
> It's so strange how people think a locator/identifier split will solve the scalability problem. We already have two tiers: DNS names and IP addresses. So that didn't solve anything. I don't see any reason a second second tier would.

I think you have encountered an article of faith Iljitsch :-)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirectio:  Any problem can be solved by adding another layer of indirection.