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

[Carlos Morgado]

On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Tony Li wrote:

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> On Sep 29, 2010, at 3:05 AM, Carlos Morgado wrote:
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>> A decent ISP will have maybe 3 or 4 upstreams. On the all-PA scenario this means 3 or 4 prefixes to manage through the network.
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> What we proposed was that ISPs get PI.
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>> I haven't seen any discussion about what this means to end users, do they get 4 prefixes on their home gateways ? This, as far as I know, isn't being covered in CPE development. In fact, the mass deployable equipments I know barely work with autoconfiguration of a single prefix let alone multiple prefixes. 
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> If the end site is multi-homed, yes, exactly, there would be 4 prefixes.
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> This is the architectural change that we need to make if we want to have scalable multi-homing.
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I meant end users of the ISP which you said above would get PI so problem solved there.
On the end site scenario I'm pretty sure they just a) go with NAT b) push one of the prefixes upstream everywhere c) most likely both.



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Carlos Morgado