On Sun Mar 27, 2022 at 12:31:48AM -0400, Abraham Y. Chen wrote: > EzIP proposes to deploy 240/4 > address based RANs, each tethering off the current Internet via one IPv4 > public address.
So each RAN has no possibility of redundant connections? Nobody of scale would accept such a limitation. It also looks like an opportunity for telcos/governments to partition their part of the internet and impose whatever censorship they wish. > As such, the collection of RANs forms an overlay network > layer wrapping around the current Internet core. Consequently, only the > SPRs in the RAN need to be able to transport 240/4 addressed packets. You previously described this as like connecting CG-NATs together via a VPN. I don't see why we'd want to add maintaining a global VPN to already difficult peering relationships. It could be used to exlude non EzIP club members. > This is why we talk about enabling new (but based on existing design) > routers to use 240/4 netblock for serving as SPRs, but not perturbing > any routers in the current Internet. As it's a CG-NAT variant why are you delaying yourself by requiring new address space that will take a long time to become available? Why not use the already allocated space for CG-NAT? Sure it's only a /10 but that's an already (probably too) large RAN. It also seems unfeasibly optimistic that if the work was done globally to make 240/4 useable that they'd want to dedicate it to the as yet undeployed EzIP. You might stand more chance if you gained some critical mass using the existing available 100.64/10 & rfc1918 space, and then those that find they need more in one RAN will make the case for 240/4 when it becomes necessary for them. Is 240/4 special to EzIP such that alternative numbers may not be used? > I would like to share one intriguing graphics (see URL below) that > is almost perfect for depicting the EzIP deployment configuration. > Consider the blue sphere as the earth or the current Internet core and > the golden colored land as the RANs. By connecting each continent, > country or all the way down to a Region to the earth via one IPv4 > address, we have the EzIP configuration. With this architecture, each > RAN looks like a private network. That sounds an entirely undesirable goal for the internet. brandon
