Subject: Re: Question about past advice to RIRs

From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:32:00 +0200

Under the heading better late than never...

On 16-aug-2006, at 12:02, Tim Chown wrote:

> - GFN
>   Geographical aggregation using BGP(?)
>   Reference?

This stands for "geo for now", the idea being that we'd use  
geographical addressing in the short term and use these as  
identifiers in MHAP, an id/loc seperation solution. GFN culminated into:

> - Provider-Internal Aggregation based on Geography to Support  
> Multihoming
>   in IPv6
>   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-van-beijnum-multi6-isp- 
> int-aggr-00.txt
>   Suggests geograophically based aggregation of provider address  
> space.
>   (Expires Apr 2003)

> - GAPI: A Geographically Aggregatable Provider Independent Address  
> Space
>   to Support Multihoming in IPv6
>   http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-py-multi6-gapi-00.txt
>   An address allocation scheme based on geography and city size.
>   (Expires Apr 2003)

These two are superseded by the (also long since expired):

http://www.muada.com/drafts/draft-van-beijnum-multi6-isp-int-aggr-01.txt