On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 21:29:20 -0500 "John Palmer \(NANOG Acct\)" <nan...@adns.net> wrote:
> Is someone volunteering to work on an RFC? Or, has someone done so for this > already? > Probably similar to this (and others that remove end-site knowledge from the Internet core) - The Locator Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/ac147/archived_issues/ipj_11-1/111_lisp.html > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jim deleskie" <deles...@gmail.com> > To: <nanog@nanog.org> > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:17 PM > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > > I'm old but maybe not old nuff to know if this was discussed before or > not, but I've been asking people last few months why we don't just do > something like this. don't even need to get rid of BGP, just add some > extension, we see ok to add extensions to BGP to do other things, this > makes at least if not more sence. > > > -jim > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:13 PM, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jim Burwell [mailto:j...@jsbc.cc] > >> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:00 PM > >> To: nanog@nanog.org > >> Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > > > > >> So, jump through hoops to kludge up IPv4 so it continues to provide > >> address space for new allocations through multiple levels of NAT (or > >> whatever), and buy a bit more time, or jump through the hoops required > >> to deploy IPv6 and eliminate the exhaustion problem? And also, if the > >> IPv4 space is horse-traded among RIRs and customers as you allude to > >> above, IPv6 will look even more attactive as the price and > > preciousness > >> of IPv4 addresses increases. > > > > No problem, everyone tunnels v4 in v4 and the "outer" ip address is > > your 32-bit ASN and you get an entire /0 of "legacy" ip space inside > > your ASN. Just need to get rid of BGP and go to some sort of label > > switching with the border routers having an ASN to upstream label table > > and there ya go. Oh, and probably create an AA RR in DNS that is in > > ASN:x.x.x.x format. Increase the MTU a little and whammo! There ya go! > > Done. > > > > :) > > > > > > > > > >
