Re: Heads up - Plea for allocating a /8 to ISPs

Rémi Després <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.v6ops,gmane.ietf.ops
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi, Ron,


Le 9 nov. 2010 à 13:26, Ronald Bonica a écrit :
> I am having a strange sense of déjà vu. 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

- Allocating a /8 to ISPs, while it is still feasible, would only slightly modify the date at which IPv4 prefixes er exhausted, not a big deal.
 
> - that a /8 wouldn't be enough, anyway

- ISPs already operate several parallel instances of 10/8 clouds, so that, although a /7 would be more generous than better a /8, a new /8 is enough to replace current 10/8's by a prefix private sites don't uses internally.

The known reason why ISPs have problems if they assign 10/8's is that some NAT44s:
 . assign 10/8's for internal use
 . cannot work with identical internal and external address spaces 

CONCLUSION:
Assigning a new /8 to ISPs so that they can replace 10/8:
- is easy to do
- has negligible effect on the transition schedule
- does solve a real problem
It should, in view of this analysis above, be highly recommended by IETF

I know that some believe that purposely breaking the IPv4 service could be a way to promote IPv6.
IMHO, their time would be better spent working to eliminate IPv6 limitations than militating against IPv4 deserved QoS.

Kind regards,
RD





> 
> 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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