Exchange point requests for IPv6 address space

[Marc Blanchet]

At/À 18:32 2001-05-11 +0000, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com you wrote/vous 
écriviez:
> >
> >
> > The question that I have is..
> >
> > Are the routing protocols used in v6 going to change significantly from
> > the ones we have now?  If not then provider aggregation is more
> > important than ever.  I think that discussing micro allocations in
> > v6 without also addressing how they're going to be routed/aggregated,
> > is a huge mistake.  They go hand in hand.
> >
>
>Not wanting to answer for Mark here but:  I know of three routing
>protocols that support IPv6 today:
>         BGP
>         RIP
>         OSPF (sort of)

IS-IS. will see support from vendors soon.

Marc.

>The predominant ones are BGP and RIP. Routing architecture and protocol
>design are being done elsewhere... so I expect that discussing
>IPv6 micro-allocations is perhaps a bit premature. (See the recent
>Paul Francis draft on v6 multihoming... has some interesting ramifications
>for addressing policy. But I doubt it will fly. Too radical.)
>
>--bill