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Re: Interconnects

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Fri May 17 20:08:01 2002 
> 
> >	Often, participants expect to have an IP address assigned for their
> >	use on an exchange. Usually these delegations are from a common
> >	block. Where they are not, its hard to tell an exchange from a
> >	bunch of point2point links. LINX and PAIX have IPv6 prefixes that
> >	participants can use. 
> 
> 	or, use link-local address on IX switch as documented in
> 	draft-kato-bgp-ipv6-link-local-01.txt.
> 

	Unfortunatly, that technique does not have broad commercial
	implementation. In addition, there was some pushback from
	the IETF IDR wg on using this technique. So its still a bit
	"iffy", although a very elegent "haq".  (we used it in LA 
	for a while but could not get folks to adopt it.)

> itojun

--bill