[141959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Question about migrating to IPv6 with multiple upstreams.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jun 14 18:47:16 2011
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On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Scott Helms wrote:
>=20
>> Yes... The key word there is perception. The question is whether it =
makes
>> more sense to put effort into correcting mis-perceptions or to put =
the effort
>> into providing workarounds which provide a sub-par networking =
experience
>> to the end user.
>>=20
>> IMNSHO, it is better to put effort into education. I'm surprised to =
find someone
>> from a .EDU on the opposite side of that thought. One would normally =
expect
>> them to favor the idea of education over hackery.
>>=20
>=20
> There are few things harder on the planet than changing perception and =
one of the few is changing human behavior. NAT is normal for many/most =
enterprises and the thought of trying to explain sub-par networking to =
most business leaders makes my teeth hurt.
>=20
It only took us about 15 years to change behavior to NAT by default, so, =
I'm betting
that if we do the right thing and put in the effort, in 15 years, we can =
have a nice
NAT-free network. Personally, I think it's worth it.
I have very little trouble explaining sub-par networking to most of =
them. Usually
it goes something like this...
Remember when your IT department came to you with projections of =
enormous
savings on telephone costs in 2003 and your company did their first =
foray into
VOIP?
Yeah, that's a good example of sub-par networking.
Owen
