[124692] in North American Network Operators' Group
interop show network (was: legacy /8)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Sun Apr 4 03:51:57 2010
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:51:06 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Someone in another thread mentioned interop show network. Which made me
curious and I did a bit of searching. I found the following article from
2008 about the interop show:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27583
The show could setup an IPv6 only network in order to showcase it?
That'd free up a /8.
"There are an enormous number of vendors that are either not ready for
IPv6, or are simply unwilling to say that supporting IPv6 is the future
requirement for enterprise network operators. This future is a lot
closer than many expect. Only a handful of the large network hardware
vendors at the show were in better shape. I'm sure that's because those
companies that have been tracking or leading the IPv6 protocol work
within the IETF; however, not many displayed that capability outright on
their booths.
(..)
So why is Interop so late to the IPv6 world? No good answer seemed to be
present. My guess is that it's because Interop itself has a /8's worth
of IPv4 space – space allocated back in 1991 specifically for the
Interop tradeshows. That's a lot of address space and a quick
calculation shows that Interop has permanently allocated nearly half a
percent of the presently used IPv4 address space. Maybe that address
space should be returned to IANA? Maybe Interop should run a show where
IP allocation is also part of the pre-show network planning. Then,
maybe, they will see the light and realize that IPv6 is important!
Perhaps with IPv6 available, Interop will also start showing off new
applications and capabilities that IPv6 brings to the table."
The author though is an employee of hurricane electric. Which is
interesting because I have 166 netblocks for that company in my
permanent spam block list. Including 12*/24 blocks and 1*/18. And I have
no doubt that will be increasing.
So I guess that puts it in a perspective.
Regards,
Jeroen
