[170205] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: misunderstanding scale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Mar 24 23:19:24 2014
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <44boqytu56vgfwcy1mu10vfu.1395678995630@email.android.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:13:04 -0700
To: Alexander Lopez <alex.lopez@opsys.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Alexander Lopez <alex.lopez@opsys.com> =
wrote:
> not to mention the cost in readdressing your entire network when you =
change an upstream provider.
>=20
> Nat was a fix to a problem of lack of addresses, however, the use of =
private address space 10/8, 192.168/16 has allowed many to enjoy a =
simple network addressing scheme.
This is easily and better solved in IPv6 using provider independent =
addressing which is readily available.
> Ipv6 requires a complete reeducation of they way we look at routing =
and the core of the network.
I wouldn=92t say complete, but significant.
Owen
