Re: [v6ops] Thoughts about wider operational input

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

Hi Gert,

I see that the discussion has been going on while I was sleeping, but I want to clarify below...
On 22-Mar-22 21:30, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 11:42:12AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> I agree with Jordi that multihoming is a genuine impediment. What isn't generally realised is that it's a problem of scale when considering at least 10,000,000 enterprises, much more than it's a problem of IPv6 itself.
> 
> What is "an enterprise"?
> 
> My stance on this is that for "largely unmanaged SoHo networks" - which
> could be called "small enterprise" - dual-enduser-ISP with dual-/48 or
> NPT66 gets the job done in an easy and scalable way (HNCP would have
> been great, but IETF politics killed it).
> 
> "Enterprise that truly need their own independent fully managed network
> with multiple ISP uplinks and fully routed independent address space"
> are probably way less than 10 million...

I came up with 10 million quite some years ago as a reasonable estimate
of the number of medium to large businesses in the world, all of which
might depend on *reliable* Internet access to survive (and WfH during
COVID has made this even more important recently). So all of them
should have two independent paths to the Internet to assure reliability.
That means two different ISPs (or less good, two completely independent
paths to the same ISP).

So, if PI addressing is the answer, that really does take us to
10M /48s to be routed.

If PA is the answer, that's why I worked on SHIM6 (may it rest in
peace). Which is why I worked on RFC 8028. If that's not the
answer, we're back to NPTv6. Possibly even to ULA+NPTv6.

> Half of them do not want Internet access anyway, just access to their
> ALGs that will do the filtering and TLS inspection and everything, and
> then out to the Internet as a new TCP session (= could be done with
> DMZ islands of upstream-provider-allocated space just fine).
> 
> 
> We need to work on our marketing regarding multihoming.  "What is it that
> you get, what is the cost, which of the variants do you want, and why...?"

Yes.
    Brian