On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 08:06:49PM -0400, James wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:17:09PM -0700, David Sinn wrote: > > > > So this is all well and good while some measure of V6 is tunneled, but > > one should be wondering what these games of chicken mean to V6 when it > > is native. Given that most organizations won't meet the qualifications > > to be multi-homed, stunts like this will have a greater impact then > > this one is having today. Doesn't exactly leave a warm fuzzy that the > > current direction for IPv6 services is sane.... > > Indeed. Unfortunately (or actually, may this is rather fortunate?) there is > practically no money value yet in IPv6, so we may be at least a year (or more) > away from seeing the first major v6 depeering dispute. But nevertheless, > given > the imperfect state of multihoming for edge sites in IPv6, such depeering war > will be significantly more detrimental to customers who cannot justify for a > /32 or a "special infrastructure" /48 prefix allocation from the RIRs. Let > see > how multihoming proposals (e.g shim6, relaxed RIR allocation policy requests, > etc et al) turn out in the next few months. IPv6 operators should probably > want to pay close attention to multihoming proposals and any commercial > developments in v6 world in the next year or two perhaps. If multihoming > solutions don't really turn out well and v6 is appearing to become more > ubiquitous, it may be a plausible idea to start opening up your route-filters > to accept /48 prefix-lengths before the first depeering happens :)
er... the first depeering flaps have -already- occured in IPv6 space. there are several (mostly EU-based) ISPs that refuse to peer w/ folks using 3ffe:: space and/or filter that prefix. --bill > > > James > > -- > James Jun > Infrastructure and Technology Services > TowardEX Technologies > Office +1-617-459-4051 x179 | Mobile +1-978-394-2867 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.towardex.com