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Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 15:51:43 +0100
Man, I hope I never become as cynical as you. On 2-mrt-2006, at 11:09, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
Why is it even remotely rational that a corporate admin trust 100k+ hosts infested with worms, virii, spam, malware, etc. to handle multihoming decisions?
They trust those hosts to do congestion control too, which is even more important.
Especially when we don't even have a sample of working code today?
The IAB goes out of its way to solicit input on ongoing work, and now you whine about lack of working code?
Now, some may take that as a sign the IETF needs to figure out how to handle 10^6 BGP prefixes... I'm not sure we'll be there for a few years with IPv6, but sooner or later we will, and someone needs to figure out what the Internet is going to look like at that point.
It won't look good. ISPs will have to buy much more expensive routers. At some point, people will start to filter out routes that they feel they can live without and universal reachability will be a thing of the past.
It will be just like NAT: every individual problem will be solvable, but as an industry, or even a society, we'll be wasting enormous amounts of time, energy and money just because we didn't want to bite the bullet earlier on.
Current thread:
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) Joe Abley (Mar 01)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) David Barak (Mar 01)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) Joe Abley (Mar 01)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) Stephen Sprunk (Mar 02)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Mar 02)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) Mark Newton (Mar 02)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) Iljitsch van Beijnum (Mar 02)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) Andy Davidson (Mar 03)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG Stephen Sprunk (Mar 03)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG Tony Li (Mar 03)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG Stephen Sprunk (Mar 03)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG Edward B. DREGER (Mar 03)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG Tony Li (Mar 03)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG Iljitsch van Beijnum (Mar 04)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG Kevin Day (Mar 04)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) Joe Abley (Mar 01)
- Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne) David Barak (Mar 01)