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Provider-Aggregated vs Provider-Independent IPv6 addressing

2010-11-08 18:54:43
During the IPv6 panel at the plenary last night, representatives
of several major service providers discussed their experiences
with IPv6. It became clear that many of their experiments involve technologies 
that delegate Provider-Aggregated (PA) IPv6 prefixes
to the customer instead of Provider-Independent (PI) ones. This
fact did not seem to be at the forefront of the service providers'
use case considerations, and perhaps needs to be brought to a
level of awareness in the community.

Many years ago, there was an extended debate on this list regarding
PA vs. PI. Emotions ran high, and in the end there seemed to be
a consensus favoring PI. Have we forgotten about that? Is it time
to re-open the debate?

Thanks - Fred
fred(_dot_)l(_dot_)templin(_at_)boeing(_dot_)com
 
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