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Re: Question about past advice to RIRs



Under the heading better late than never...

On 16-aug-2006, at 12:02, Tim Chown wrote:

- GFN
  Geographical aggregation using BGP(?)
  Reference?

This stands for "geo for now", the idea being that we'd use geographical addressing in the short term and use these as identifiers in MHAP, an id/loc seperation solution. GFN culminated into:

- Provider-Internal Aggregation based on Geography to Support Multihoming
  in IPv6
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-van-beijnum-multi6-isp- int-aggr-00.txt Suggests geograophically based aggregation of provider address space.
  (Expires Apr 2003)

- GAPI: A Geographically Aggregatable Provider Independent Address Space
  to Support Multihoming in IPv6
  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-py-multi6-gapi-00.txt
  An address allocation scheme based on geography and city size.
  (Expires Apr 2003)

These two are superseded by the (also long since expired):

http://www.muada.com/drafts/draft-van-beijnum-multi6-isp-int-aggr-01.txt