[arin-ppml] Opposed to 2010-9 and 2010-12

Joe Maimon jmaimon at chl.com
Sun Oct 10 14:53:16 EDT 2010



Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Oct 10, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
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>> What about traffic engineering? It would be a lot nicer if return trip to my users could deterministically stay within region.
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>> Joe
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> Permit me to rephrase... There is nothing that in my mind would justify the community
> granting more than one 6rd prefix to an ISP, given the incredible waste inherent in the
> first one. I would advocate that, instead, if you want to do TE with your 6rd, you should,
> as an ISP, either disaggregate your 6rd prefix accordingly, or, you should move towards
> a more native solution where you could get appropriate native allocations with much
> less wastage.
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> Owen
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We agree. My point was that 6rd can open the door to even larger than 
/16 allocations. And all because of the excellent idea to store protocol 
dataset inside of ipv6 128 bits of register^W address space. TE bits 
would come on top of that.

Joe



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