Seth Mattinen wrote: > Leo Bicknell wrote: >> Worse, the problem is being made worse at an alarming rate. MPLS >> VPN's are quicky replacing frame relay, ATM, and leased line circuits >> adding MPLS lables and VPN/VRF routes to edge routers. Various >> RIR's are pushing "PI for all" in IPv6 based on addressing availbility. >> Some networks are actually finally using multicast for IPTV services, >> generating much larger number of entries than the global multicast table >> would otherwise indicate. >> > > It's not the RIR's fault. IPv6 wasn't designed with any kind of workable > site multihoming.
Lest anyone forget it has the same non-workable site-multihoming that has allowed the internet to grow to the size it is today. by non-working we mean not-better than ipv4. We actually know how to run that network pain and all. > The only goal seems to have been to limit /32's to an > "ISP" but screw you if you aren't one. There was no alternative and it's > been how long now? PI, multihoming, multicast, etc. is reality because > the internet is now Very Serious Business for many, many people. > > Yes, I know there's hacks like SHIM6 and I don't wish to go OT into a > debate about them, so I'll just say that if there had been a viable > alternative to multihoming as we know it I think it would have been > given a go before policy got pushed to the RIR's to allow IPv6 PI. > > ~Seth >
