[AfriNIC-rpd] AfriNIC Policy Proposal: IPv6 ProviderIndependent (PI) Assignment for End-Sites

[Alain Patrick AINA]

On Thursday 22 March 2007 11:27:39 McTim wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Alain Patrick AINA <aalain at trstech.net> wrote:
> > seems easy to fix between now and abuja :-)
> >
> > The other hidden aspect of this discussion is: "are we solving a problem
> > for ens-site or for end-user ?"
>
> We are solving a problem for a small number of folk, but creating
> future problems for all.  We can obviate future woes by setting
> appropriate fees for v6 PI.
>
> I recommend this: http://www.vaf.net/~vaf/rrg.pdf  for folk who are
> interested in routing scaling issues.


Yes. Routing and addressing scalability is an issue and we have to look at it, 
but not in panic mode.

IETF-68's yesterday plenary has an interesting discussion on it .

See the routing and addressing problem status report  at :
http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07mar/slides/plenaryw-3.pdf


--alain