Hi Frank - A couple of uninformed questions, here: please excuse any misstatements.
My understanding of the issue you're speaking of is that it revolves around the question of addressing, and lookups.
The paradox of IPv6 is that it theoretically enables reaching anybody who has a network address, but present mechanisms will not be able to satisfy the anticipated huge increase in the number of addresses. Router tables would become "huge", and unmanageable. Is this correct?
If it is, I sorta lost the link on how OBGP would partially resolve the coming problem. Is it simply an effort to divert some of the traffic to an alternative routing system? Which routing system would grow, incrementally, until everyone is using it?
What is the perceived advantage of OBGP? Is it a speed advantage of optical, or is it an advantage conferred by "siphoning off" traffic? If it is the latter, then I think I see where your "walled garden" comes in.
It seems the subtext in your post is that we are no nearer to a solution than we were a year ago. The anticipated explosion in embedded devices (judging by the numbers that are being tossed around) will further exacerbate the coming problem - never mind enabling billions more human users with cheap internet-enabled devices.
I remember thinking, then, that the solution might lie in the subordination of the 'net routing problem to higher mathematics (just the delusions of an old carpenter >g<).
Even if some new and revolutionary mechanism is adopted, it still must satisfy the hybrid, transitional phase, as you point out.
We seem to be exploring the edges of the finite. It makes one wonder if there is a solution: even if one could, for example, enable OBGP at the flick of a switch.
Best regards,
Jim |
