On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:20 PM Måns Nilsson <mansa...@besserwisser.org> wrote: > Subject: Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Date: Thu, Nov 18, > 2021 at 01:46:04PM -0800 Quoting William Herrin (b...@herrin.us): > > The detractors for this proposal and those like it make the core claim > > that we shouldn't take the long view improving IPv4 because IPv6 is > > going to replace it any day now. Each day that passes with the end of > > IPv4 still not in sight demonstrates how very wrong that strategy is. > > Aw, come on. There is noone (except naive ones in power) who expect this > to happen immediately. We all knew there would be a transition > period. The "improvement" part was CIDR. And a very good one it is at > that -- it sort of sets the standard as to what an improvement should > be to count. 6,25% new addresses from Net 240 is not an improvement in > that regard, and neither would the much smaller contribution from Net > 127 be. Both are no more than holding paper money on the deck of the > Titanic. > > The essence of an IP address is that it is unique. The larger the network > area is that recognizes it as unique, the better it is. That's why RFC > 1918 is free and useless. We all know this. > > The only viable future is to convert. This is not group-think, it is simple > math. > > > If there's a change we can make to a standard now which will result in > > IPv4 being better 20 years from now, we should make it. We should hope > > that we never need the result because IPv6 takes over the world but we > > should make the change anyway. Because hedging our bets is what > > responsible people do. > > You are proposing a deal involving paper money you have on your person > to your fellow passengers on the Titanic; that is the essence of your > proposed bet hedging. Having studied the market for IPv4, it is a no- > brainer to realise the driving force behind all these schemes. Delaying > the inevitable is just going to make some people richer, to the detriment > of others. I see no reason to support that.
Howdy, I can't tell if you believe what you just wrote or are trolling me with satire. If it's satire... good one. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/
