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Re:Do we really need a new BGP? by leecarraher on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:25AM (#16157664)
i would think BGP is needed now more than ever considering the move to ipv6.
Re:Do we really need a new BGP? by tialaramex on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:31AM (#16157692)
Mostly this makes no sense because the things BGP cares about are orthogonal to mere IPv4 or IPv6 addressing.

But if there is a difference, IPv6 means less prefixes are needed for any given provider, since the IPv6 prefixes are huge and unfragmented, we can usually give a provider enough address space in their initial allocation to last them forever, and if they exceptionally out-grow it, the larger space is available, whereas with IPv4 there's no chance anybody can give you a /16 even if you warrant one.

Re:Do we really need a new BGP? by Duckeh on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:38AM (#16157727)
It means less prefixes until people start announcing each /48 in their /32 separately...
Re:Do we really need a new BGP? by jandrese on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:02AM (#16158620)
Oh yeah, nothing makes a mess of your network like someone coming in and saying "we need to remove these IPs from the middle of our advertised blocks for security reasons".
Re:Do we really need a new BGP? by snuxoll on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:18AM (#16158733)
I think we're going to see less of this due to IPv6's design, renumbering is less of a pain than it was with IPv4 so instead of splitting off a route in the middle of your address space and bloating the BGP table you can just move to a different subnet entirely.
Re:Do we really need a new BGP? by zero_intp on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @09:57AM (#16158589)
Network Operators dislike buying new hardware. As the policies matriculate through tiers of providers, raw numbers of announced prefixes becomes a sticking point.
Re:Do we really need a new BGP? by candiodari on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:30AM (#16157688)
BGP works fine for IPv6. This is not a good reason.