[124605] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Fri Apr 2 19:41:20 2010
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:40:37 -0600
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4BB65B39.8010902@mompl.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/2/10 3:01 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> I am curious. Once we're nearing exhausting all IPv4 space will there
> ever come a time to ask/demand/force returning all these legacy /8
> allocations? I think I understand the difficulty in that, but then
> running out of IPs is also a difficult issue. :-)
>
> For some reason I sooner see all IPv4 space being exhausted than IPv6
> being actually implemented globally.
>
> Greetings,
> Jeroen
>
I've got a rather stupidly simple and straightforward plan, since we're
all throwing ideas out.
Take back all the IP space from China and give them a single /20 and
tell them to make do. They're already behind a great firewall, so they
should have no problem using NAT with their citizens for easier
restricting of freedoms, and for the actual services they need to run,
they can assign a limited amount of static IP addresses for servers, and
the rest NAT as well, and port forward for specific services.
If they want to be an intranet, I say, lets help them achieve that goal.
They get to play in their own sandbox, and we get some IP space back
to buy us more time.
--
Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
