[156573] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Sep 20 01:35:21 2012
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:58:21 EST."
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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:34:23 +1000
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <CAAAwwbW2OH0-CpsVwYRfDODvjOTAVaQ8WdLUSsqvShs5CoTUYQ@mail.gmail.com>
, Jimmy Hess writes:
> On 9/19/12, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> wrote:
>
> > Why is this cast as a boolean choice? And how has the getting on with
> > IPv6 deployment been working out?
>
> "getting a single extra /4" is considered, not enough of a return
> to make the change.
>
> I don't accept that, but as far as rehabilitating 240/4, that lot
> was already cast, I think, and the above was the likely reason, there
> have been plenty of objections which all amounted to "too much
> trouble to lift the pen" and change it.....
>
> So if you want some address space rehabilitated, by a change of
> standard, it apparently needs to be more than a /4.
>
>
> There is still no technical reason that 240/4 cannot be
> rehabilitated, other than continued immaterial objections to doing
> anything at all with 240/4, and given the rate of IPv6 adoption thus
> far, if not for those, it could possibly be reopened as unicast IPv4,
> and be well-supported by new equipment, before the percentage of
> IPv6-enabled network activity reaches a double digit percentage...
The work to fix this on most OS is minimal. The work to ensure
that it could be used safely over the big I Internet is enormous.
It's not so much about making sure new equipment can support it
than getting servers that don't support it upgraded as well as every
box in between.
> > That the discussion continues is in and of itself a verdict.
> > Joe
> --
> -JH
>
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