New mailing list [Re: Starting some discussion on renumbering]
Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.ops |
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| Organization | University of Auckland |
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The [email protected] mailing list now exists. This list is for discussion of how to improve IP address renumbering mechanisms. https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/renum to subscribe. Non-member postings are moderated for spam protection. Regards Brian Carpenter On 2010-11-11 20:55, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > RFC 5887 (Renumbering still needs work) was published in May 2010. > > I will assume that you've read it. It isn't a philosophical > document; it is meant to be technical. > > So, the problem is that in any future scenario, site renumbering > will sometimes be needed, but remains very hard and impractical > for most sites. RFC 5887 justifies these statements. > > What are we going to do about it? > - Is IPv4 site renumbering a lost cause? > - Should we focus entirely on IPv6? That is probably easier in several > ways (new deployment for most sites, not constrained by a shortage > of prefixes) > - We need a gap analysis. Is the gap analysis in RFC 5887 sufficient? > - In any case we should focus on what is doable, and put other problems > on the "too hard" pile. > ... > Remember that the cut-off for BOF requests for IETF 80 will be somewhere > round the end of January. Not much time... >