pTLA request for RMNET - review closes 23 April 2002

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Bob Fink wrote:
> >An ISP from Italy has a tunnel and address block from VIAGENIE in Canada.
> >
> >Is it just me or does there seem to be something really wrong here?
> 
> What is wrong? Many times networks that want to get involved with 
> experimenting with IPv6 cannot find reasonable geographically located pTLAs 
> to support them with a prefix and a tunnel, so they go to freenet6. Part of 
> the reason to expand the pTLA base is to minimize this problem by creating 
> communities of interest with a pTLA of their own so they can then serve 
> their users in a sensible geographical way.
> 
> If you think there is something wrong with this, please say more.

If I was serious about experimenting with IPv6, I sure would not go
overseas to find someone who might be willing to slice off a part of a
block.  However, if I was not serious, I wouldn't care if all my IPv6
traffic to European countries crossed the Atlantic twice.

In real use this just would *not* have been acceptable.

I'm sure there would have been a pTLA in, perhaps not Italy but Europe
regardless willing to give space.  Perhaps this might be something 
consider in the evaluation of proper (existing) pTLA behaviour.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "Tell me of difficulties surmounted,
Netcore Oy                   not those you stumble over and fall"
Systems. Networks. Security.  -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords