Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> Also, if everybody got their equal size subnet delegation from each 
> ISP then it shouldnt be that much of a problem to run two 
> "networks" side-by-side by using the subnet part of the delegation 
> equal to both networks, but keep the prefix separate. If you switch 
> providers you change the prefix part. This means we need new 
> mechanisms to handle this,
Hmm, one thing that would be nice would be to seperate the prefix 
from the host identifier in DNS, oh... wait..

> but I feel that's better than doing the routing mistake again.
It's all routing, just shifting different portions of it to different 
places.

regards,
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