Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

[Tony Li]

> > ...the necessary evil called CIDR.  evil because it locked customers
> > into their providers, entrenched the existing large providers
> > against future providers, and made it hard or impossible for the
> > average endusing company to multihome.
> Uh, perhaps I'm being dense, but how does moving masking off byte
> boundaries have any of the above effects?

Bill,

CIDR also changed allocation policies and created the notions of PA  
and PI space.

Tony