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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: shim6 @ NANOG
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[email protected]> Man, I hope I never become as cynical as you. A pessimist is never disappointed. No, they don't. That's why nearly every enterprise has deployed intradomain QoS of some sort.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. Nearly everyone doing VoIP has to use QoS to prevent hosts (with "congestion control") from messing with their voice traffic. Others have had to deploy it to prevent non-mission-critical (or even prohibited) apps from interfering with mission-critical stuff. I had one customer that had to implement QoS on their entire WAN just to keep Outlook and web access from starving out their serial-over-X.25-over-IP business application. The people who pay for the network want to have control over it. I'm not whining (at least I don't think so), but I think it's very premature to talk about shim6 as the solution to IPv6 multihoming when it's not a deployable solution or even a fully specified one.The IAB goes out of its way to solicit input on ongoing work, and now you whine about lack of working code?Especially when we don't even have a sample of working code today? That's one possible end case. The other is that all of this is a tempest in a teapot and the growth of IPv6 PI routes will continue to be non-dominant just as PI is with IPv4. As others have noted, one prefix per ASN (which is the goal of IPv6 PI policy) is nowhere near enough to create a problem unless there's a serious explosion in ASN assignment. The policies for IPv4 are pretty darn lax, so if we don't have a problem today, why do people think we'll have a problem with stricter policies on the IPv6 side?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. And I'm the cynic... 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.People pay what they perceive to be the lowest cost to themselves; so far, NAT has that honor. I'm more confident that we'll find an answer to the IDR problem sooner than we'll convince people to act in the good of the community at their own expense. S Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
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