Subject: RE: [RRG] Renumbering...

From: "Templin, Fred L" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 11:59:21 -0700

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>From: Scott Brim [mailto:[email-masked]] 
>Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:16 AM
>To: [email-masked]
>Cc: 'Noel Chiappa'; [email-masked]
>Subject: Re: [RRG] Renumbering...
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>On 9/3/08 1:18 PM, Tony Li allegedly wrote:
>>  
>> 
>> |On 9/2/08 8:15 PM, Tony Li allegedly wrote:
>> |> So, part of our recommendation will likely be to cease the 
>> |current practice
>> |> of disseminating PI addresses in favor of alternative addressing
>> |> architectures.  These would necessarily be coupled, so that 
>> |our recommended
>> |> solution would become available at the same time that PI 
>> |accessibility
>> |> ceased.  Obviously, some timing details need to be worked 
>> |out so that we
>> |> have an engineering solution that clearly does work (in 
>> |practice, not just
>> |> on paper) before we can phase out PI.
>> |
>> |Why do you say this?  An addressing architecture that 
>eliminates PI is
>> |one possibility, but not the only one.  Are we having terminology
>> |problems again?
>> 
>> 
>> If PI is available, then all users will tend to cling to it, 
>avoiding any
>> other possible solution.  Our entire job is to give them an 
>alternative.
>
>My crystal ball leans differently.  I have trouble imagining the RIRs
>successfully telling everyone they are no longer giving out PI
>addresses, and that instead sites should convert all of their endpoints
>to using some new software ... especially if the proposed solution
>doesn't take away the burden of renumbering when they change providers.

As with just about everything else in life, I don't see why
it has to be all one way or the other. Why not have PA for
navigation purposes and PI for identification purposes? So,
if an end site changes providers, it may need to change its
global mapping, but it should not have to renumber - it gets
to keep its EIDs, and everyone is happy - right?

Fred
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