Re: moving to IPv6

[Phillip Vandry <vandry () Mlink NET>]

> What this leads to is a registry system (one or more) for the 32-bit
> suffixes in which you form "colloquial" memberships, ensuring uniqueness
> among competing ASNs *as long as both ASNs subscribe to the same registry*.
>
> But membership is VOLUNTARY; you give up nothing except possibly the ability
> to allow people to join your ASN without renumbering if you don't belong.
>
> Right now membership in these registries is MANDATORY; the network breaks if
> you choose random 32-bit integers and masks and announce them.  We can fix
> this if we think for more than 2 nanoseconds before doing something stupid
> (again).
>
> If you want to connect to an ASN which is *NOT* part of your colloquial
> group, that's fine too -- but you might need to renumber in that case (or 
> perhaps not - 32 bits is still quite large).

draft-odell-8+8-00.txt (expired) suggests something not so different from
this.

-Phil