[182367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Wed Jul 15 16:25:44 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: "David Conrad" <drc@virtualized.org>, "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:23:36 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <B6DFDD85-8CE1-47D0-902B-5A5909914479@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:20:08 -0400, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>>> That's the big difference - IPv6 has been designed to provide abundant
>>> address space.
>>
>> There is no amount of fixed address space that can't be consumed with
>> stupid allocation policies.
>
> True. However, are you making the argument that any of the current or
> proposed allocation policies are, in fact, stupid in such a way that
> this is likely?
What seems like a great idea today becomes tomorrow's "what the f*** were
they thinking".
