[75316] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPV6 renumbering painless?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Hain)
Thu Nov 11 11:35:36 2004
From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
To: <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@Merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:35:07 -0800
In-reply-to: <OFB0C36E01.A4334783-ON80256F49.00599350-80256F49.0059EBBE@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
First issue is that IPv6 interfaces support both the old & new prefixes at
the same time, so the provider change case is not as dramatic as people fear
based on past IPv4 experience. Second:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-v6ops-renumbering-procedure-0
1.txt
talks about other issues that make renumbering non-trivial.
Tony
> -----Original Message-----
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> Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 8:22 AM
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> Subject: IPV6 renumbering painless?
>
>
> > I guess you also want to announce a /64 into the IPv6 BGP tables ?
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't IPv6 do away
> with the need to renumber when switching providers?
> So if RFC 2462 is right, and you use DNS outside
> your network and you update that DNS at the moment
> of switching providers, everything on your network
> automatically acquires new IPv6 globally routable
> addresses as soon as the gateway router is connected
> to the new provider. Seems to me that with a little
> bit of help from a "Change providers" tool, this
> would be virtually painless without the need to
> own or announce a small globally unique prefix.
>
> --Michael Dillon
