6bone Routing [was RIPng & tunnels]

[bound@zk3.dec.com]

Geert,

>> This sounds good to me.  One issue I just found though which is logistical 
>> is that I know of two customers that will ask very soon for REAL IPv6 
>> addresses and begin to deploy them.  They will join the 6bone and use 1897 
>> but clearly this will be a pain and they don't want to have to IPv6 
>> address AS's.
>
>There is no such thing as real IPv6 addresses. It shouldn't be needed
>either; if people can't renumber at the flick of a switch, then I don't
>think we have met all the requirements for IPv6.

Even with IPv6 its still going to be painful.  If customers are going to
move to IPv6 they will want to avoid instantaneous renumbering.  We need
to be realistic here.

I have an idea.  Stay tuned.

So your not going to set up the registries as Bob pointed out?

/jim