[104389] in North American Network Operators' Group
[NANOG] leave the deck chairs alone (Re: fair warning: less than
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. DREGER)
Sat May 10 00:45:34 2008
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 04:45:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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RB> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 05:00:32 +0200
RB> From: Randy Bush
RB> i suggest we focus on how to roll out v6
Bingo. Or, I begin to wonder if door #2 might actually have merit:
RB> or give up and get massive natting to work well (yuchhh!)
For massive NATting to work well, one would need to specify "IP address
behind the NAT device". Suddenly, we've invented a variable-length
addressing scheme, with 32 bits per level. Under the current model,
levels 2+ (where "level" is 1-based) are restricted to a teeny portion
of all possible addresses; this could change.
Wait... this smells a lot like:
1. OSI addressing;
2. Phone numbers having variable length depending on country code or
area code;
3. ASN.1 OID allocation.
i.e., we can learn from existing implementations that deal with very
similar problems.
RB> and not waste our time rearranging the deck chairs [0] or
RB> characterizing those with chairs as evil.
Quite so, particularly when the deck chairs will put up a fight.
Eddy
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