[rrg] Renumbering can never be secure, testable, reliable or routine - draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work

[William Herrin]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Robin Whittle <rw at firstpr.com.au> wrote:
>  I don't support the scaling problem being solved just for "small" networks, however defined,

Agree.

> differently for "small" and "large" networks.

Disagree. There's a money issue here: large networks can afford and
are willing to spend more money on multihoming than small networks.
There's no reason that both should be constrained to the same solution
at the same cost. The requirement is that whatever the scaling
solution, the per-network cost must either be trivial -or- recoverable
from the networks who instigate it.

BGP is unacceptable because it costs "the world" about $8000/yr for
every announced BGP prefix. If there was a way that "the world" could
recover that $8000 from each of the folks announcing a prefix, our
problem space would shrink considerably.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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