[124758] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zaid Ali)
Sun Apr 4 17:51:29 2010
Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:50:22 -0700
From: Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.1004041400350.24457-100000@gato.kotovnik.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 4/4/10 2:04 PM, "Vadim Antonov" <avg@kotovnik.com> wrote:
>
>> Zaid
>>
>> P.s. Disclaimer: I have always been a network operator and never a dentist.
>
> I would have thought opposite.
>
It is sometimes helpful to draw lessons from nature and other systems :)
> People who have been on this list longer would probably remember when I
> was playing in this sandbox.
>
> The real wisdom about networks is "never try to change everything and
> everywhere at once". You either do gradual migration, or you end up in a
> big pile of poo. Which what IPv6 transition situation is.
>
> --vadim
>
I too apply the same "real wisdom" and view IPv6 transition as a gradual
migration and we are seeing a lot of success already with this approach, its
just that the adoption numbers are slower than we would like. I get a sense
that our 5+ year IPv6 discussions have people worried and panicked that the
best thing is to leave things as they are <insert NAT solutions> which makes
me think we should perhaps spend less time on the advocacy part of IPv6
solution and put our efforts on what we get out of implementation.
Zaid
