[137583] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Feb 17 07:40:20 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinzN-fi7rK_bf0VuhVNiRd1-6MKc6W77xcmFHE0@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:39:27 +0100
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11 feb 2011, at 17:51, William Herrin wrote:
> We can't backport ULA into IPv4 private
> addressing; there aren't enough addresses for the math to work. So we
> either make such folks jump through all kinds of hoops to get their
> networks to function, or we assign addresses that could otherwise be
> used on the big-I Internet.
Not that it matters because it's too late now and it would only give us =
a few more months, but:
Does the US government really need more than 150 million addresses, of =
which about half are not publically routed? Non-publically routed =
addresses can be reused by others as long as the stuff both users =
connect to doesn't overlap.=
