On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Daniel Roesen wrote:
And even if all active ASses would immediately adopt IPv6, we would land at about 18k IPv6 routes. "big deal".
And I don't see multihoming adoption in IPv6 being anywhere quicker than in IPv4, so: where is the problem, please? We'll have about 1 route per ASN... so even when exhausting the 16bit ASN space, this will be only <65k routes. And when will this be, extrapolating active ASN growth? 2010? 2015?
Call me a retarded idiot, but I have a really hard time seeing any _practicle_ problem with "1 ASN == 1 IPv6 prefix" at all.
We'll run out of 16-bit ASN space much faster, and have to transition to 32-bit ASNs. Otherwise, by making the policies a bit stricter, we might make do with 16 bit ASNs, or at least make do with them much longer. Some of you may have seen this: http://www.netcore.fi/pekkas/ietf/draft-savola-multi6-asn-pi-01.txt I don't like the idea myself, but there it is. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings