lea.roberts@stanford.edu (Lea Roberts) wrote:
Like was already said - loosening the ASN handout rules needs changes in assignment rules, too. But that's for years to come.
see also my reply to Michael Dillon. there is a legitimate fairness argument about trying to find policies that work into the future rather than policies that need to be made more restrictive later.
Well, at least my crystal ball gets clouded if I try to look more than a year into the future. I believe, we should change policies as we see fit, and not try to solve all the riddles of the world and foresay the future of the Internet now.
it's really time to try to get rid of the IPv4 mindset!! there will have to be new and better ways of solving how to use multiple providers than everybody's route going into the global routing table. some work is being done now and it's good to keep pointing out the need for creative and scaleable solutions. let's encourage the right solutions rather than short term work-arounds... /Lea
I like your enthusiasm very much, but there is more to do than start (or continue) designing a different Internet. We have to take up with what we have today. A different type of routing will have to be designed, adopted, implemented, used. That takes a lot of time, and I strongly believe (I know that it's right for _my_ part) that we need a (alas interim) solution now. Not in ten years. Elmar. -- "Begehe nur nicht den Fehler, Meinung durch Sachverstand zu substituieren." (PLemken, <bu6o7e$e6v0p$2@ID-31.news.uni-berlin.de>) --------------------------------------------------------------[ ELMI-RIPE ]---