Re: [v6ops] Heads up

Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ops,gmane.ietf.v6ops
Organization University of Auckland
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ron,

On 2010-11-09 18:26, Ronald Bonica wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I am having a strange sense of déjà vu. 

That is common when one is playing whack-a-mole.

This particular game will end, according to today's prediction, on 25-Jan-2012.

    Brian

About two years ago, we saw another proposal to allocate a /8 for private use to support another transition mechanism. We concluded:
> 
> - that we didn't have a /8 to spare
> - that a /8 wouldn't be enough, anyway
> 
> So, the proposal was abandoned. I wonder if we are not in the exact same place today.
> 
> Maybe the equation would be changed if we could make do with a /16, but it appears that a /16 wouldn't help.
> 
>                                            Ron
>                                            <speaking as individual contributor>
> 
> BTW, the LISP WG is talking about asking for a prefix for a very similar reason.
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
>> Of james woodyatt
>> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 11:50 PM
>> To: IPv6 Operations; [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [v6ops] Heads up
>>
>> On Nov 8, 2010, at 20:24 , Erik Kline wrote:
>>> Didn't Akira Nakagawa/KDDI present something like this a few meetings
>> ago?  I can't recall clearly...
>>
>> It was in Chicago, if I recall correctly.  At which point Tony Hain
>> joked that we should direct IANA to just turn over the entire remaining
>> free pool for that use.
>>
>> Personally, I'd prefer to take Tony's suggestion as a serious proposal.
>> A single /8 isn't enough, is it?  For NAT444 to be a really workable
>> architecture, we've got to give over enough addresses that service
>> providers can handle at least a hundred million subscriber addresses in
>> the same address realm, right?
>>
>>
>> --
>> james woodyatt <[email protected]>
>> member of technical staff, communications engineering
>>
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