Not sure the IETF looked at it or not, but personally I'm one of those people that has never accepted a solution just because, its the only option there. I haven't always won my battles, but never just give in :)
-jim On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Jim Burwell <j...@jsbc.cc> wrote: > On 4/2/2010 19:13, George Bonser 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. >> >> :) >> >> > So essentially add 32-bits to the IPv4 address, used as a ASN, and use > legacy V4 on the "backbone" which tunnels everything, so the entire > intra-ASN internet has to go through v4-in-v4 tunnels. A few "little" > changes to DNS, and voila! And of course, there's no "devils in the > details" we have to worry about. Heck. Just quote that last post up > and submit it as an RFC to replace the IPv6 RFCs! :-) > > Seriously though, would that really be easier to implement, or be better > than IPv6 as this point? I'd think the IETF would probably have > considered solutions like that, but IPv6 is what we got. So best learn > to love it. :P > > -Jim > > >
