Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-grand : saving lookups

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Nick Hilliard <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > Bob Hinden wrote on 10/08/2020 00:42:
    >> I thought we learned long ago to not create large distributed broadcast/multicast domains.

    > We did, but what's disheartening is that people persistently use this model
    > as rationale to justify a protocol change of one form or another.

And, we continue to pretend that we have these large domains in our analysis
of performance and security. And additionally, we are expending large amounts
of L2 logic to continue to simulate them with very little increase is
performance or security.

    > Maybe we need an ID which states this explicitly: "Large broadcast domains
    > considered harmful"?  As long as we have broadcast domains, people will be
    > tempted to make them too large and will express surprise that they don't
    > scale well.

Just remove the word "large" :-)

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