Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-19 Thread Dan Lanciani
Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |Dan Lanciani wrote: | |> I thought I made this pretty clear in the portions of my note which you |> snipped, but I'll try to run through it one more time. |> |> -Scalable PI space without distributed routing tables probably requires |> a full identifier/l

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-18 Thread Julien Laganier
On Sunday 16 October 2005 23:25, Erik Nordmark wrote: > > The issue I have with your description is that you assume that the > "mapping layers" are actually of similar complexity, and AFAICT > they are quite different; the shim uses a "re-mapping" layer (which > remaps the ULIDs to alternative loca

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-16 Thread Erik Nordmark
Dan Lanciani wrote: I thought I made this pretty clear in the portions of my note which you snipped, but I'll try to run through it one more time. -Scalable PI space without distributed routing tables probably requires a full identifier/locator split. -An identifier/locator split almost certai

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
David Conrad wrote: Eliot, On Oct 15, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: The IETF cannot legislate prefix lengths, but the argument behind conservation beyond /48 would be utterly silly and demonstrates a "revenue opportunity", plain and simple. When multiple /19s and /20s have been all

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-16 Thread Jason Schiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Dan Lanciani wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:55:39 -0400 (EDT) > From: Dan Lanciani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35 > [snip] > > IPv6 itself does nothing good for (3). PI allocations may

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-16 Thread Eliot Lear
David Conrad wrote: On Oct 15, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: The IETF cannot legislate prefix lengths, but the argument behind conservation beyond /48 would be utterly silly and demonstrates a "revenue opportunity", plain and simple. When multiple /19s and /20s have been allocated and

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-15 Thread David Conrad
Eliot, On Oct 15, 2005, at 2:34 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: The IETF cannot legislate prefix lengths, but the argument behind conservation beyond /48 would be utterly silly and demonstrates a "revenue opportunity", plain and simple. When multiple /19s and /20s have been allocated and there are ru

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-15 Thread Dan Lanciani
Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | (I wrote) |> Unfortunately, that does not address most of the problems that drive the |> demand for NAT. The current economic model is: |> |> 1) Pay for addresses |> 2) Pay more for stable addresses |> 3) Pay much more for portable stable addresses |> |>

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-15 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi, Unfortunately, that does not address most of the problems that drive the demand for NAT. The current economic model is: 1) Pay for addresses 2) Pay more for stable addresses 3) Pay much more for portable stable addresses With more address space available, IPv6 may help with (1) if provide

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-14 Thread Dan Lanciani
"Jason Schiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Dan Lanciani wrote: | |[snip] |> |> IPv6 itself does nothing good for (3). PI allocations may well be available |> to some set of entities for a while to ease the transition, but that just |> brings us back to r

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-14 Thread Dan Lanciani
Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | (I wrote) |> My concern is that adoption of shim6 will be an impediment to development |> of a more general locator/identifier separation solution both because the |> mapping functions might clash and because many will object to changing |> existing i

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... My concern is that adoption of shim6 will be an impediment to development of a more general locator/identifier separation solution both because the mapping functions might clash and because many will object to changing existing implementations a *second* time for what might be perceived to be

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-13 Thread Dan Lanciani
Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: | |> The point of shim6 is to *avoid* the need for PI-like space for |> multihomed sites, so that we don't do to the IPv6 BGP table what |> multihoming is doing to the IPv4 BGP table. We need IPv6 to scale |> v

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Paul Jakma wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: The point of shim6 is to *avoid* the need for PI-like space for multihomed sites, so that we don't do to the IPv6 BGP table what multihoming is doing to the IPv4 BGP table. We need IPv6 to scale vastly more than IPv4, so this is

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-10 Thread Eliot Lear
Paul, We'll always need PI. The Independence part of PI is what people /really/ want. They don't want multiple-PA (they can do that already relatively easily). If people can not get globally-unique PI addresses they will use private PI space and use address translation. I think enterprise ad

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-10 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: The point of shim6 is to *avoid* the need for PI-like space for multihomed sites, so that we don't do to the IPv6 BGP table what multihoming is doing to the IPv4 BGP table. We need IPv6 to scale vastly more than IPv4, so this is essential. The pr

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Schiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > David Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ipv6@ietf.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35 > > Mohacsi Janos wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, John Payne wrote: > > > > > > I

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Mohacsi Janos wrote: Dear all, On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, John Payne wrote: On Sep 25, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: NANOG = network operators in the sense of ISPs and the like. The solution that the shim6 is working on does NOT apply to this demographic. Whoa there. The NANO

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-05 Thread Tony Li
NANOG = network operators in the sense of ISPs and the like. The solution that the shim6 is working on does NOT apply to this demographic. The ISP community is the primary direct beneficiary of shim6 and will have to work with their customers to help implement it. If the operational commu

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-05 Thread Jason Schiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, John Payne wrote: > Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:10:27 -0400 > From: John Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: David Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ipv6@ietf.org, [EMAIL > PROTECTED] >

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-05 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Dear all, On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, John Payne wrote: On Sep 25, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: NANOG = network operators in the sense of ISPs and the like. The solution that the shim6 is working on does NOT apply to this demographic. Whoa there. The NANOG community (as well as

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-04 Thread Geoff Huston
Doesn't this apply to any orgization that doesn't have its own /32? In the fullness of time this is the expectation, yes. However its pretty clear that the approach entails some changes to the protocol stack, and its not going to be a completely straightforward task. So its a pretty likely ou

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-10-04 Thread John Payne
On Sep 25, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: NANOG = network operators in the sense of ISPs and the like. The solution that the shim6 is working on does NOT apply to this demographic. Whoa there. The NANOG community (as well as other ISP communities) is hugely affected by shim

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-09-25 Thread David Meyer
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 06:48:25PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 23-sep-2005, at 17:06, David Meyer wrote: > > >The IAB has proposed the below BOF for the upcoming NANOG > > That's nice, but... > > >The purpose of this BOF for the IAB is to solicit operator > >feedback on the progr

Re: IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-09-25 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 23-sep-2005, at 17:06, David Meyer wrote: The IAB has proposed the below BOF for the upcoming NANOG That's nice, but... The purpose of this BOF for the IAB is to solicit operator feedback on the progress and direction of IPv6 multi-homing work, particularly as discussed in the IETF, a

IPv6 Multi-homing BOF at NANOG 35

2005-09-23 Thread David Meyer
Folks, The IAB has proposed the below BOF for the upcoming NANOG (please see http://www.nanog.org for information on NANOG). As mentioned in the description (see below), the purpose of the BOF is for the IAB to solicit operator feedback on the progr