how well will IDRP nee BGP work?

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From the IPv6 mailing list.  Concerned with the general prospect of
renumbering in IPv6 and perhaps IPv4, I raised this question... and
was refered here.  When/If renumbering is the defacto mode of operation,
and if my assumptions are correct, then BGP/IDRP are fundamentally flawed.

Please tell me that this is not so and BGP/IDRP will be happy with
dynamic renumbering. (Can figure out who its peers are w/o manual
intervention)


>> 3) For Inter-domain routing, the plan is to use IDRP.  There is an ID on
>>     IDRP for IPv6.
>>     To date, there are two independent implementations of IDRP.
>>     One was done by IBM, and one by MERIT.  Both are reported to be part
>>     of gated.  I am re-checking this as it does not appear in my copy.
>>     There is reported to be a earuopean vendor who has a version as well.
>> 
>
>Thanks for the update.   I do have a minor problem, perhaps conceptual.
>My understanding is that IDRP shares that same characterisics as BGP.
>And as we all know, BGP is effectivly a point2point protocol.  What
>affect will this protocol feature have given the  general concept of 
>dynamic renumbering and address configuration in IPv6?

--bill