Re: [Idr] WGLC on draft-ietf-idr-as-private-reservation-00

[Tony Li <[e-mail]>]

On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Geoff Huston <[e-mail]> wrote:

> But if there is a single need for 100,000 code points in single coherent space then you have to ask how one could ensure uniqueness within the deployment space, as you are now talking about a large number of entities and a large coder point space, and according to your response, the reason why there is a driving need  duplicate an existing uniqueness framework is because the current framework we have for ensuring uniqueness of AS number code points is ... "inelegant"?


Obviously, the private use ASNs would have local uniqueness and specified by the local administration.  Not a big deal.  More to the point, the noise and fluff of administering this is not something that you want foisted on the RIRs, especially when multiplied by the number of sites using it.

We've seen over and over again that the right way of creating scalability is to create hierarchy.  All this is doing is to continue its instantiation.

Tony