Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-27 Thread Dave Taht
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 4:05 PM David Conrad wrote: > > Barry, > > On Nov 21, 2022, at 3:01 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > We've been trying to get people to adopt IPv6 widely for 30 years with very > limited success > > > According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html, it loo

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-27 Thread John Gilmore
John Curran wrote: >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-240/ > > ... this Internet draft ... can't be safely deployed in the actual > real-world Internet The draft *has been* safely deployed in the actual real-world Internet. It is in all Linux nodes since 2008, and al

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-26 Thread Fred Baker
> What's the group's current thought on emergence or prevalence of > IPv6-only hosts ? They aren’t needed; dual stack hosts will work just fine in a single stack network. When they’re needed, they will be normal but nobody will care.

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-22 Thread John Curran
> On Nov 22, 2022, at 2:13 PM, Tom Beecher wrote: > >> Serious consideration requires a serious proposal - I don’t think we’ve seen >> one yet. > > I would posit that draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-240-03 ( > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-240/ ) should > be cons

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-22 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Serious consideration requires a serious proposal - I don’t think we’ve > seen one yet. > I would posit that draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-240-03 ( https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-schoen-intarea-unicast-240/ ) should be considered a serious proposal, in so much as what is proposing is th

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-22 Thread John Curran
> On Nov 22, 2022, at 1:19 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > John Curran wrote: >> >> By the way, you shouldn’t feel particularly bad about skipping out on the >> interoperability requirement – anything involving interworking with the >> installed Internet is hard, and this is the same lesson that t

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-22 Thread Joe Maimon
John Curran wrote: On Nov 22, 2022, at 9:09 AM, John Curran wrote: ... Interoperability isn’t insurmountable, but does take some investment of effort. One can imagine any number of techniques (e.g. flag day after which “production devices” on the Internet must support 240/4, or DNS res

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-22 Thread John Curran
> On Nov 22, 2022, at 9:09 AM, John Curran wrote: > ... > Interoperability isn’t insurmountable, but does take some investment of > effort. One can imagine any number of techniques (e.g. flag day after which > “production devices” on the Internet must support 240/4, or DNS resolver > hacks t

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-22 Thread John Curran
> On Nov 22, 2022, at 2:09 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: > > David Conrad wrote: >> >> Again, the issue isn’t fixing a bit of code in a known source tree. It is >> getting all the instantiations of that bit of code implemented, tested, and >> deployed across all the myriad supported and unsupported

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread Joe Maimon
David Conrad wrote: How trivial would the change be in a product by a company that no longer exists or a product line that is no longer supported? Will Microsoft update all previous versions of Windows? Will the myriad of deployed embedded systems sitting forgotten in closets be updated? And

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread Joe Maimon
David Conrad wrote: Barry, On Nov 21, 2022, at 3:01 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: We've been trying to get people to adopt IPv6 widely for 30 years with very limited success According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html, it looks like we’ve gone from ~0% to ~40% in 12 ye

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread Owen DeLong via NANOG
in some time or in a very long > time? > > > Rubens > > > -- Forwarded message - > From: > Date: Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 8:02 PM > Subject: Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC > To: NANOG > > > > My suggestion

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread David Conrad
Joe, On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:30 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: > As I and others have pointed out, it depends on how it is used. Sure, and with enough thrust and an appropriate trajectory, pigs fly quite well, although the landing can get messy. With enough constraints, any problem becomes trivially sol

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread Joe Maimon
David Conrad wrote: Barry, On Nov 21, 2022, at 3:01 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: We've been trying to get people to adopt IPv6 widely for 30 years with very limited success According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html, it looks like we’ve gone from ~0% to ~40% in 12 ye

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread David Conrad
Barry, On Nov 21, 2022, at 3:01 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > We've been trying to get people to adopt IPv6 widely for 30 years with very > limited success According to https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html, it looks like we’ve gone from ~0% to ~40% in 12 years. https://stats.lab

Fwd: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread Rubens Kuhl
at 8:02 PM Subject: Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC To: NANOG My suggestion is ignore anyone who says it would be too difficult to get people to adopt a change or take too long. Someone always says that, a reasonable riposte is "what would be a reasonable number of

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread bzs
My suggestion is ignore anyone who says it would be too difficult to get people to adopt a change or take too long. Someone always says that, a reasonable riposte is "what would be a reasonable number of people / years?" Surely they must have some numbers in mind, no? We've been trying to get pe

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Dear Tom: 0) Thanks for your advice. 1) What I wrote was just informal online chatting. I was not attempting to make a water-tight legal statement. The fact is, we have identified at least one concise case of how this task could be done easily, as reported in Appendix D of the EzIP IETF Draft

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread Tom Beecher
> > As stated in Subsection 4.A. of the "Revamp The > Internet" whitepaper, all need be done is "Simply disable the existing > software codes that have been disabling the use of the 240/4 netblock." > Some friendly feedback. The phrase "all that needs to be done" , is exceptionally reductive, and

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Dear Mark: 0) Thanks for the clarification. I understand. A short message through the cyberspace, especially between parties who have never met can be easily skewed. I am glad that I asked you, instead of taking it negatively without raising my hand. 1) "...I'd, rather, expend those resource

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-20 Thread Mark Tinka
On 11/20/22 19:02, Abraham Y. Chen wrote: Dear Mark: 0)  I am surprised at your apparently sarcastic opinion. 1)  The EzIP proposal as referenced by my last MSG is the result of an in-depth system engineering effort. Since the resultant schemes do not rely on any protocol development, IET

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-20 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 2:03 PM Abraham Y. Chen wrote: > > Dear Mark: > > 0) I am surprised at your apparently sarcastic opinion. > > 1) The EzIP proposal as referenced by my last MSG is the result of an > in-depth system engineering effort. Since the resultant schemes do not > rely on any proto

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-20 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Dear Mark: 0)  I am surprised at your apparently sarcastic opinion. 1)  The EzIP proposal as referenced by my last MSG is the result of an in-depth system engineering effort. Since the resultant schemes do not rely on any protocol development, IETF does not need be involved. Especially, its f