Subject: Re: [RRG] Renumbering...

From: Scott Brim <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 12:32:11 -0400

Excerpts from Tony Li on Fri, Sep 05, 2008 09:13:04AM -0700:
> Hi Noel, 
> 
> |    > part of our recommendation will likely be to cease the 
> |current practice
> |    > of disseminating PI addresses ... we can phase out PI.
> |
> |That's just not going to be accepted, IMO. The users leaned on 
> |the RIRs to do
> |PI, and any attempt to get rid of PI would take even more ooomph than
> |stopping them, and there clearly wasn't enough for that.
> 
> 
> To be fair, there is no good alternative to PI today.  Again, our charter is
> to provide that alternative.  Once there is a proven alternative, then
> allowing the current run on PI addressing 

to clarify: globally routed, unaggregated prefixes.

Provider independence isn't a problem.

> to continue simply ensures that
> routing eventually fails.  There is no proposal that we could possible put
> on the table that would compete with the established status quo.
> 
> Leadership will be necessary.

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