-----Original Message----- From: address-policy-wg-admin@ripe.net [mailto:address-policy-wg-admin@ripe.net] On Behalf Of Andre Oppermann
There is NO WAY for large corporate and government entities to put them at the mercy of any single random ISP again. They've learned it the hard way with IPv4 already and go exclusively with PI address space now.
NATO is a prime example for this. I'm doing a lot of consulting for large enterprises regarding IP addressing, multihoming and ISP independence. Based on that experience I can say with ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY that with the current policy IPv6 does not NOT get adopted AT ALL in any large corp.
I am not going to say you are incorrect because you aren't, but speaking as a LIR and internet service provider you need to have a look at the possibilities: We have customers of so high importance, "NATO style", that we need multihomed lines to them; multihomed in the way that they have multiple lines but only to us, but if one goes down then the others are still up using HSRP, BGP etc. So should these customers perhaps get PI instead because they sooner or later will as you say "learn" that we cannot provide a good service? I have also configured redundant lines for other companies to other ISPs than the one I work for where these lines only go to a single ISP. I have not received any indication of that they wanted PI instead and multiple ISPs, nor did I suggest that they should get PI so we could sell them a line too because I did not see the reason for it. Nobody here is thinking about bankruptcy anyway. I don't really have any valid arguments for or against PI. I am just telling some facts of what some non-PI holders do today. Joergen Hovland