[101379] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 tracking assignments (OSS recommendations)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Wed Jan 2 16:59:39 2008
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:44:47 -0500
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Crist Clark <Crist.Clark@globalstar.com>
CC: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <477B8CD7.8C45.0097.0@globalstar.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> I would think if you find something that tracks IPv6, that's all
> you need. You can represent the whole IPv4 space with IPv4-mapped
> IPv6 addresses, :ffff:a.b.c.d.
>
This is certainly true. Let's not forget that a simple thing that strips
the :ffff: and converts the remaining bits from hex to decimal (at least
visually) would be needed to keep the clue impaired up and running. :)
The point remains, IPv6 is clearly becoming an operational topic for
NANOG so the standard suite of tools we've finally gotten to some level
of decency need to be upgraded or adjusted to support v6.
DJ
