McTim wrote:
Provider lock in is a consequence of aggregation. IP addresses aren't
property, they can't be "owned", therefore they are not "their"
addresses.
The "We hate renumbering" argument is not sufficient IMHO to undo the
many years of IETF work, where the notion of IPv6 PI was debated and
decided against.
The fact has been well established that for organizations where (for
political or other reasons) provider lock-in is unacceptable and where
LIR status is unobtainable or unnecessary, there is a genuine
requirement for PI allocations. Most organizations are reasonably
protected from this since they use NAT on IPv4 and use public
addressing sparingly - switching ISP's is then very easy. IPv6 changes
this. If you saw how some providers in South Africa treat customers
with domain names in order to lock them into services, you would be as
scared as I am about giving them total control over our banks IP
addressing.
For large organizations who also would like to move faster on IPv6
uptake than their ISP's (which isn't hard...), it is of great help to
be able to obtain a PI allocation in order to move forward before
ability to peer is obtained - again, this goes hand in hand with my
argument against labor costs of renumbering. In fact by your own
argument, RFC3177 asserts this reasoning.
You seem to also be of the understanding that any of us actually have
access to PA space. TENet (which is not a public provider) aside, this
is unfortunately not a reality for us.
PI should help remove the "chicken and egg" scenario by giving easy
access to address space to certain content providers and critical
infrastructures. ISP's can no longer complain about lack of benefit in
IPv6 peering on the basis that content density is low if critical
services are the first to adopt and publicise this fact, the market
will open drastically. Until that happens, people will continue to sit
in the dark and work their way around the terrible NAT's already
inflicting among other things, our mobile providers.
We must try to stop dancing around this issue for once and be brave.
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