Re: [sig-policy] prop-101 Returned to mailing list and Newversionposted
> On 3/12/2012 5:52 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:20 AM, paul vixie wrote:
>>> ...
>>> i therefore see no back pressure against explosive IPv4 deaggregation,
>>> absent a new market in RIB/FIB slots.
Back pressure exists. Who has Sean Doran's phone number?
>> In the aftermath of the explosion,
>> cleanup crews will realize that there is no longer any feasible way to route
>> IPv4 and the resulting IPv4 forwarding table will become less and less
>> usable at such an alarming rate that people who wish to remain connected
>> to the internet will have no choice but to move to IPv6.
>
> that will not happen and cannot happen.
Agreed.
Guys, we've been here before and we have the t-shirts. The end result of growth beyond deployed hardware limits was and is prefix length filters, proxy aggregation, etc. There is no magic bullet now just as there was no magic bullet in the mid-90s. IPv6 doesn't solve this problem, it just makes it worse since IPv6 routes do not replace IPv4 routes, but rather add to them.
Regards,
-drc