Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[Perry E. Metzger]

Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > As more and more people switch to this configuration, they'll start
> > finding themselves talking to more and more things over the net
> > natively, and fewer and fewer through the translator. Suddenly,
> > they'll discover they *do* have globally routable addresses again,
> > just like we did in the old days before net 10 was turned into the
> > universal addressing ghetto.
> 
> By the way, the 6to4 mechanism was conceived as the natural first mechanism
> for such NATted sites to use. 
> 
> In answer to Yakov, the idea is that IPv6 site renumbering will be so much
> easier than for IPv4 that renumbering will be *less* painful than NATting.
> Theoretically this is taken care of in IPv6 today, but we need to see 
> some practical experience of renumbering to find out if it's true.

I'm not sure we're there yet in the support technology for
renumbering. We have good ideas but we haven't pushed them totally out
the door yet. However, we do have good ideas.

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Perry Metzger           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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