Hi, On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 10:07:58AM +0100, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
I accept that PI for BGP multihoming purposes is - today - one of the more reasonable ways to achieve the goal (ISP independence and resilience), but I still hope that we won't ever see the "let's get PI once, and never have to renumber again!" land rush.
You do realize that in IPv6 there is enough address space to supply such a "land rush" in an orderly manner so that everyone gets their unique PI block?
The problem is not the amount of address space. The problem is the pressure on the AS numbers, and the amount of slots in the global routing table. Which, as a matter of fact, won't be able to handle "an unique PI block for everyone" (5 billion?) any time soon. Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 92315 SpaceNet AG Mail: netmaster@Space.Net Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Tel : +49-89-32356-0 D- 80807 Muenchen Fax : +49-89-32356-234