[156566] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Wed Sep 19 23:24:55 2012
To: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:06:16 MST."
<505A8828.9040105@dougbarton.us>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:24:09 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <505A8828.9040105@dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton writes:
> On 09/19/2012 15:36, Joe Maimon wrote:
> > So 6-8 years to try and rehabilitate 240/4 was not even enough to try?
>
> All the experts I consulted with told me that the effort to make this
> workable on the big-I Internet, not to mention older private networks;
> would be equivalent if not greater than the effort to deploy v6 ... and
> obviously with much less long-term benefit.
>
> Doug
And for those cases I would agree with you and the experts.
However it would have been possible to use 240/4 between CPE and a
6rd BR and CGN with CPE signaling that it can use 240/4 address it
is assigned one. This could be done incrementally and would have
been better than the /10 that was eventually allocated for that
purpose.
Mark
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