On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 08:56 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
Hmmm....It walks like a duck: Can be advertised to any v6 ISP. Talks like a duck: Does not have to be returned to ISP when changing transit providers. Floats like a duck: Provides globally unique v6 addresses to said organization
Must be made of wood and so it must be a witch.
I was almost expecting you to start screaming "ding dong the witch is dead" in relation to IPv6 or something ;)
I don't care whether you want to call it PI space or not, the bottom line is that it has all the same practical uses and effect as PI space, and, this is exactly what the real world is likely to do with v6 for any organization that wants to multihome without renumbering. They'll get an AS and they'll get a /32, and, suddenly, each department within the company will become a "customer" of the IT-ISP department.
Fortunately there are 'only' 65k ASN's, thus that would mean only 65k routes in the routing table, which should be quite practical. Seeing only ~650 routes now I don't see that happening that soon, especially with the slowness of deployment of IPv6 in the US, though it is catching on ;). Left to wonder though what happens when we run out of ASN's, 32bit ones?
I'm not saying this is clean, friendly, nice, whatever. However, it is what people are really going to do with the current v6 address allocation policies.
As those policies are decided upon by the membership, feed your input to ARIN/RIPE/APNIC/LACNIC... Greets, Jeroen