Hi David,
Provider of what? Note that if a provider of address space is not
routing the addresses involved, they have few or no performance
responsibilities in the arena. They don't even need to polish and
regrind
the digits periodically; they just go. It seems unlikely to me
personally that you
would change providers for performance reasons.
Back to money. If you are getting a slice of the globally unique
address space from someone to whom it has been delegated, you
may pay them for the privilege. Those fees could go up, and in that
case, a network might decide to renumber into a cheaper provider's
space to avoid costs. Given that they are all derived from the same
sources
and the lack of scarcity in the resource, though, its hard to see this
as a
major problem, unless scarcity is created artificially. That would be a
matter for policy debate with the allocating agencies, though, not the
IETF.
If you were using some of an allocated portion as routable addresses
and some as unrouted addresses, you might be forced to change the
unrouted addresses as a consequences of choosing someone new to carry
the traffic from the routed portions of your network. That would carry
the same pain of renumbering it always does.
regards,
Ted
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:32 PM, David Conrad wrote:
Ted,
What happens when you change providers?
Rgds,
-drc
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 04:01 PM, Ted Hardie wrote:
Michel,
I don't think something needs to be provider independent
to fit this bill. Getting a slice of the global address space from
some provider and choosing not route a portion of it (even
if that portion is 100%) seems to me to create "non-routed
globally unique space". Are you concerned that doing so
has some impact on the routing system that needs to be
considered?
Money and other annoyances are certainly concerns we
all face. In that spirit please understand that keeping site local
costs
different money and creates different annoyances.
regards,
Ted