On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:08 AM, John Curran <jcur...@istaff.org> wrote: > On Feb 17, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >> Not that it matters because it's too late now and it would only give us a >> few more months, but: >> >> Does the US government really need more than 150 million addresses, of which >> about half are not publically routed? Non-publically routed addresses can be >> reused by others as long as the stuff both users connect to doesn't overlap. > > Again, I note that we've collectively allocated the 95%+ of the address > space which was made available outside of DoD's original blocks, and then > considering that US DoD additionally returned 2 more /8's for the community > (noted here: <http://blog.icann.org/2008/02/recovering-ipv4-address-space/>), > I believe they've shown significant consideration to the Internet community. > The fact that any particular prefix today isn't in your particular routing > table does not imply that global uniqueness isn't desired. > > Rather than saying 240/4 is unusable for another three years, perhaps the > service provider community could make plain that this space needs to be > made usable (ala http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fuller-240space-02 or > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-00, etc.) on a priority > basis and work with the operating system and vendor community actually > to make this happen? There's a chance that it could be made usable with > sufficient focus to make that happen, but it is assured not to be usable > if eternally delayed because it is "too hard" to accomplish. >
+1 If you want to go on a wild goose chase, start chasing down 240/4 and you might make some progress. As i have mentioned before, it was only after i gave up on 240/4 for private network numbering that i really earnestly took on IPv6-only as a strategy. Seeing 240/4 actually work would be nice, but i have already concluded it does not fit my exhaustion timeline given how many edge devices will never support it. If i have to fork lift, it should be for ipv6. Cameron ======= http://groups.google.com/group/tmoipv6beta ======= > /John > > (my views alone; 100% recycled electrons used in this message) > > >
