Re: Provider-Aggregated vs Provider-Independent IPv6 addressing

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 09 November 2010 01:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: Provider-Aggregated vs Provider-Independent IPv6 addressing
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On 2010-11-09 13:54, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> During the IPv6 panel at the plenary last night, representatives
> of several major service providers discussed their experiences
> with IPv6. It became clear that many of their experiments involve technologies that delegate Provider-Aggregated (PA) IPv6 prefixes
> to the customer instead of Provider-Independent (PI) ones. This
> fact did not seem to be at the forefront of the service providers'
> use case considerations, and perhaps needs to be brought to a
> level of awareness in the community.
> 
> Many years ago, there was an extended debate on this list regarding
> PA vs. PI. Emotions ran high, and in the end there seemed to be
> a consensus favoring PI. Have we forgotten about that? Is it time
> to re-open the debate?

Not on this list, please.

   Brian