[151374] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: shared address space... a reality!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Fri Mar 16 19:00:00 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:59:12 +0000
In-Reply-To: <D11591E1-CF6D-41FF-BBCA-5BAFC75E6210@delong.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]
>=20
> In my perception, this is primarily a moving part that will be used by
> providers deploying IPv6 as a mechanism to compensate for things on the
> internet their customers want to reach that have not yet deployed IPv6.
I think it will be used mostly as the middle 4 in NAT444 and in links betwe=
en networks where there are RFC1918 network assignment collisions. My gut =
tells me we will see that net block being used for NAT on a lot of VPNs bet=
ween RFC1918 networks.
> I don't think any sane provider will use this as yet another way to
> avoid deploying IPv4.=20
I hope you're right.
> OTOH, the number of not sane providers is
> somewhat scary, but, hopefully not of sufficient critical mass as to be
> meaningful in the long term.
