[rrg] Summary of architectural solution space

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 2008-12-05 06:20, William Herrin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Teco Boot <teco at inf-net.nl> wrote:

...
>> On Strategy B and H:
>> I think the difference of the two strategies is minor. Make methods A2a and
>> A2b for these?
> 
> I vacillated on that for a while and eventually came down on the side
> of calling it a different strategy. I think if the difference was
> truly minor, IPv6 would have worked out a whole lot better than it
> has.

The difference is very much related to the practicality of automatic
(i.e. non-administered) renumbering. Which is why renumbering still needs
work. We (the authors) will revise draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work-00.txt
shortly, so comments are still welcome. I'm thinking we should be
clearer about the distinction between automated and administrative
actions in the draft. If we can show that some aspects of renumbering
are intrinsically impossible to automate, some classes of solution
will vanish for sure.

   Brian