On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:07:47AM +0200, Pekka Savola 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.
My preference lies in making the policies a lot stricter, and actively verifying current delegations. I see a lot of ASN's requested just for fun with no real motive behind it. Therefore I also agree with daniel that there is not really a problem with the 1 ASN == 1 IPv6 Prefix. -- Cliff Albert <cliff@oisec.net>