Re: 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)
> 
> I believe that major pain of renumbering is with hosts nor routers. Hence,
> I guess, some manual re-configuration of routers is acceptable and
> probably unavoidable.  Do you think otherwise?
> 
> Dimitry
> 

I am not so sure.  Hosts effectivly need to be treated once. The routers
will be different. The routers carry complex configurations and access-lists.
Hand crafting them is hard enough w/o the requirement to readjust them 
every time you, your provider, or any of your peers renumbers, particularly
when this is done with any regularity.  In this case a more simple
construct of static routes may be easier to manage.

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--bill