[124673] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: legacy /8

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Apr 3 16:37:16 2010

Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:36:26 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE08FE6C73@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> No.  But that isn't the point.  The point is that v6 was a bad solution
> to the problem.  Rather than simply address the address depletion
> problem, it also "solves" a lot of problems that nobody has while
> creating a whole bunch more that we will have.

it's known as "second system syndrome."  and you neglect to add that
ipv6 did not deal with the routing problems, which are rather intimately
connected with addressing in both the ipv4 and the ipv6 models.

randy


home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post