Re: the race to the bottom problem

[Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:14 AM Alexandre Petrescu <
[e-mail]> wrote:

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> Le 06/11/2020 à 11:36, Fernando Gont a écrit :
> > On 6/11/20 07:04, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
> >> I have been reminded in private about 'race to the bottom'.
> >>
> >> In the Variable SLAAC solution draft we do touch on the problem:
> >>
> >>> The "race to the bottom problem" - is the problem where allowing
> >>>  prefixes longer than 64 to be used in SLAAC will lead to 65, 66
> >>> and so on, up to 127 and 128 allocations.  At that point the
> >>> bottom would be reached and thus impossible to extend the network
> >>> further.
> >>
> >> A solution is then proposed in section 8 titled "Greater than 64
> >> bit prefix usage by ISPs is strictly prohibited".
> >
> > Then we'd need an RFC for formally creating the Internet
> > police/militia. (possibly a very bad timing for an already bad
> > idea).
>
> So we need to attenuate that 'strictly prohibited' wording and improve a
> way forward.


     Along with updating the verbiage in the draft we can create a 3GPP
mobile handset address allocation draft that that recommends only /64
allocation.

A RIPE BCOP may help as well for mobile operators.
This is all a theoretical fear that operators will race to the bottom, but
until we remove the 64 bit boundary, we don’t know for sure either way.  My
thoughts are that large operators such as Verizon as I can influence the
stance Verizon takes on allocation guidelines, that they will not change
and will remain at /64.  Verizon as a major stakeholder can influence other
operators as well on the stance. The complexity of management vlsm is
allocation for operators is not worth the saving and what is the real
savings.  Most operators have massive IPv6 assignments they got decades ago
so they never have to go back to the well again for more.

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>
> Alex
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> >
> > Thanks,
>
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