--- Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org> wrote:
On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:22, David Barak wrote:
As far as I can tell, the whole reason for these discussions is the insistence on the strict PA-addressing model, with no ability to advertise PA space to other providers.
The whole reason for the strict PA-addressing model is concern over whether open-slather on PI address space will result in an Internet that will scale.
Is it easier to scale N routers, or scale 10000*N hosts? If we simply moved to an "everyone with an ASN gets a /32" model, we'd have about 30,000 /32s. It would be a really long time before we had as many routes in the table as we do today, let alone the umpteen-bazillion routes which scare everyone so badly.
Joe
(Failing miserably to keep quiet. Must try harder.)
(don't worry - you have content in these posts. content is always welcome...) David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.listentothefranchise.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com