I-D Action:draft-azinger-scalable-addressing-00.txt

Tony Li tony.li at tony.li
Wed Sep 29 20:39:46 CEST 2010


>> Resulting in 4 routes in the DFZ.
> 
> Not necessarily.  The extent ot the distribution of your routes
> would be into your peers networks.  First off: who's to say those
> are part of the DFZ?  With PA-client peers, that would probably
> not be the case.  Also, do those routes need to be carried by
> every router which makes up the DFZ?  I'd say "obviously not",
> that is, unless we're talking about peering between what we still
> call "tier-1" networks (which we're obviously not, since we're
> debating whether a given network can reasonably be given PA
> prefixes from his upstreams, and a "tier-1" network doesn't have
> any upstreams, only peers and customers).


Except that in the practical world, what happens is that everything goes to the DFZ today.

Tony




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