On 7-jul-2005, at 16:23, Andre Oppermann wrote:
Err... So you want to protect the incumbent ISP's?
No, it should always be possible to start new ISPs.
Even those once
started off with 200 customers. Who is going to decide if some
(today)
small ISP is worthy of receiving its own PA space or not?
Pretty much any ISP is capable of obtaining their own PA space
under current RIR policies, regardless of size.
In ARIN, RIPE and APNIC regions you need to plan to give out address
pace to 200 customers within a few years. So only ISPs who are small
now and are pessimistic about their future growth don't qualify.
The myth that only large, established ISPs are able to obtain PA
IPv6 address space really needs to disappear.
It was about a spot in the global routing table. No matter if one
gets
PA or PI they get a routing table entry in the DFZ. There is no
way around
it other than to make the routing protocols more scaleable.
If the routing table is large, making the protocols that create the
routing table better won't help you.
The problem is that today, everyone occupies a slot at the top of the
global hierarchy. I'm not saying people shouldn't occupy slots, I'm
saying they don't have to be at the top of the global hierarchy.