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

Victor Kuarsingh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.v6ops,gmane.ietf.ops
Message-ID <C901CA0A.128C1%[email protected]>
On 11/11/10 4:10 PM, "james woodyatt" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Nov 10, 2010, at 22:29, Victor Kuarsingh wrote:
>> On 11/11/10 2:11 PM, "james woodyatt" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Nov 10, 2010, at 21:45, STARK, BARBARA H (ATTLABS) wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> IMO, not providing this IPv4 address block will actually slow down IPv6
>>>> deployments, because more resources will be required to make sure the
>>>> introduction of NAT444 is done "right".
>>> 
>>> How will directing IANA to allocate the NAT444 block speed up IPv6
>>> deployment?
>> 
>> We have found problems in deploying NAT444 with RFC1918.  The same resources
>> (as with many operators) can work on fixing those problems (as stated
>> previously) or work on IPv6. (I would like to work on IPv6).
> 
> That doesn't answer the question.  For clarity, I asked the same question
> twice, worded a little differently the second time.  Here it is again...
> 
>>> What advantage is there in directing *IANA* to do it?
> 
> I understand why you want to use a prefix not listed in RFC 1918.  I don't
> understand why getting it from IANA will be any better for you than if you get
> it from Joe's House Of IPv4 Addresses.
> 
The goal here was that in aggregate, the provides use less global space for
a common use. It is more efficient for providers to share a block, then all
go to the RIRs and ask for their own slice.

Victor
> 
> --
> james woodyatt <[email protected]>
> member of technical staff, communications engineering
> 
> 


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