[79445] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The power of default configurations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Thu Apr 7 14:10:39 2005
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:10:37 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050407175828.8D86B13971@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Paul Vixie wrote:
>>IMO, RFC1918 went off the track when both ISP's and registries started
>>asking their customers if they have "seriously considered using 1918 space
>>instead of applying for addresses". This caused many kinds of renumbering
>>nightmares, overlapping addresses, near death of ipv6, etc.
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>just checking... does that mean you favour the one-prefix-per-asn implicit
>allocation model, or the ipv6 version of 1918 which intentionally doesn't
>overlap in order to serve inter-enterprise links, or what exactly?
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I'm saying that running out of IPv4 addresses would not be such a bad
thing and because of this should not be unneccessarily delayed.
Pete
