[137797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sat Feb 19 11:14:39 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <831304.5346.qm@web114714.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:08:51 -0800
To: Zed Usser <zzuser@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Zed Usser wrote:
> --- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>>> Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address
>> exhaustion will not result in IPv6-only hosts before we run
>> out of meaningful IPv4-only hosts?
>> No, but, I am willing to bet that we will not meaningfully
>> make the situation better for those IPv4-only hosts or the IPv6-only
>> hosts attempting to reach them by any mechanism more efficient
>> than encouraging them to add IPv6 capability, whether or not
>> that happens after the fact.
> So, in essence, you are advocating not to interconnect the IPv4-only =
and IPv6-only domains in any way?=20
>=20
> - Zed
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
I'm advocating not depending on any such interaction working as it's =
pretty clear that
the available solution set is fairly broken.
I'm advocating not expending significant development resources on =
enhancing that
situation when it's pretty clear they are better spent facilitating IPv6 =
deployment to
obviate the need for this level of hackery.
Owen
