[128076] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Sat Jul 24 05:27:48 2010
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:27:31 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E57E67C6-1E6D-4B67-A832-E0A5D81AFEC0@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On (2010-07-24 02:13 -0700), Owen DeLong wrote:
> > This is non-technical problem, enterprises of non-trivial size can't
> > typically even tell without months of research all the devices and software
> > where they've written down the IP addresses.
>
> Sounds like they haven't written them down very well.
Exactly, unfortunately this is reality in many enterprises today. And it is
optimistic to hope any technical change will fix the situation.
It would be excessively easy to renumber IPv4 infrastructure if it was
built with that goal, yet it can be multiyear MUSDs gig to integrator.
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