Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-03-12 Thread Christian de Larrinaga
Now that is what Baldrick* would call "a cunning plan!" And interesting examples. Christian *Apologies to Tony Robinson and Blackadder On 12 Mar 2011, at 18:52, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Owen DeLong wrot

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-03-12 Thread Tom Limoncelli
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I think you'll be in for a surprise here, too. The 4G transition is already >> underway. For the vendors where 4G means LTE, IPv6 is the native protocol >> and IPv4 requires a certain

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Randy Bush wrote: There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in operating production networks.

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Randy Bush
>>> There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that >>> IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this >>> position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in >>> operating production networks. >> >> excuse me! > > Hi, Randy. I didn't mean to

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 22, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:14 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > >>> There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that >>> IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this >>> position seems to be most pronounced from

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Tony Hain wrote: > Seriously, some people will not move until the path they are on is already > burning, which is why they did nothing over the last 5 years despite knowing > that the IANA pool was exhausting much faster than they had wanted to > believe. It took gett

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Tony Hain
Benson Schliesser wrote: > On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:14 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > > >> There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that > >> IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this > >> position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in > >> ope

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:40 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 is >> the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position seems to >> be most pronounced from people not involved in operating production >> networks. But

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:54 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:29:23 CST, Benson Schliesser said: >> There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 >> is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position >> seems to be most pronounc

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:29:23 CST, Benson Schliesser said: > There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that IPv6 > is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this position > seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in operating > production networks. "m

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 22, 2011, at 3:14 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that >> IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this >> position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in >> operating production networks. > > exc

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Dan Wing
> -Original Message- > From: Chris Grundemann [mailto:cgrundem...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 8:17 PM > To: Dan Wing > Cc: Owen DeLong; Benson Schliesser; NANOG list; ARIN-PPML List > Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 22, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Benson Schliesser wrote: > > On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 19:08, Dan Wing wrote: >> >>> Its title, filename, abstract, and introduction all say the problems >>> are specific to NAT444. Which is untrue. >> >>

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Randy Bush
[ arin cesspool removed from cc: as i can not post there anyway ] > There seems to be a position, taken by others on these lists, that > IPv6 is the only address family that matters. Interestingly, this > position seems to be most pronounced from people not involved in > operating production netw

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-22 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 19:08, Dan Wing wrote: > >> Its title, filename, abstract, and introduction all say the problems >> are specific to NAT444. Which is untrue. > > I just re-read the filename, abstract and introduction, and I disagr

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 19:08, Dan Wing wrote: > Its title, filename, abstract, and introduction all say the problems > are specific to NAT444.  Which is untrue. I just re-read the filename, abstract and introduction, and I disagree that any of those say that the problems are specific to NAT444.

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Dan Wing
> >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 > > That document conflates problems of NAT444 with problems of NAT44 > > with problems of bandwidth starvation with problems of CGN. > > it may require a delicate palate to differentiate the different flavors > of Running out of ban

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Dan Wing
> -Original Message- > From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 12:59 PM > To: Dan Wing > Cc: 'Chris Grundemann'; 'Benson Schliesser'; 'NANOG list'; 'ARIN-PPML > List' > Subject: Re: [ari

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Randy Bush
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 > That document conflates problems of NAT444 with problems of NAT44 > with problems of bandwidth starvation with problems of CGN. it may require a delicate palate to differentiate the different flavors of randy

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Owen DeLong
ANOG list; ARIN-PPML List >> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 >> naysayer...) >> >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:17, Benson Schliesser >> wrote: >> >>> If you have more experience (not including rumors) that suggests &

RE: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Dan Wing
> -Original Message- > From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On > Behalf Of Chris Grundemann > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 5:55 PM > To: Benson Schliesser > Cc: NANOG list; ARIN-PPML List > Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (w

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-21 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 20, 2011, at 10:35 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: >> Basic Internet services will work (web browsing, email, Facebook, >> Youtube,...), but: Actually, many facebook and youtube features will also be degraded. >> - Less torrenting >> - Less Net

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-20 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: > Basic Internet services will work (web browsing, email, Facebook, > Youtube,...), but: > - Less torrenting > - Less Netflix watching > - Less FTP downloads > - Less video streaming in general (webcams, etc.) > You might take a hit on online gami

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-20 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 20, 2011, at 3:27 AM, Zed Usser wrote: > --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong wrote: >> Oh, I expect CGN/LSN to be connectivity of last resort, no >> question. > Ok, so let's just deploy it and not even try to fix it? Even when it is a > required functionality for IPv6-only hosts to access

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-20 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong wrote: > Oh, I expect CGN/LSN to be connectivity of last resort, no > question. Ok, so let's just deploy it and not even try to fix it? Even when it is a required functionality for IPv6-only hosts to access the IPv4 domain? That'll go down real well with end-us

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Zed Usser wrote: > --- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> So, in essence, you are advocating not to >>> interconnect the IPv4-only and IPv6-only domains in any way? >> >> I'm advocating not depending on any such interaction >> working as it's pretty clear th

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-19 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Sun, 2/20/11, Owen DeLong wrote: >>  So, in essence, you are advocating not to >> interconnect the IPv4-only and IPv6-only domains in any way? > > I'm advocating not depending on any such interaction > working as it's pretty clear that > the available solution set is fairly broken. Fair

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:41 AM, Zed Usser wrote: > --- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address >> exhaustion will not result in IPv6-only hosts before we run >> out of meaningful IPv4-only hosts? >> No, but, I am willing to bet that we will not meaningful

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-19 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong wrote: > >  Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address > exhaustion will not result in IPv6-only hosts before we run > out of meaningful IPv4-only hosts? > No, but, I am willing to bet that we will not meaningfully > make the situation better for those IPv4-only host

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:48, Benson Schliesser > wrote: >> >> I agree that it's an imperfect analogy, so I won't bother defending it. :) >> But my point remains: NAT444 is a deployment scenario, which includes a CGN >> element. Othe

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:48, Benson Schliesser wrote: > > I agree that it's an imperfect analogy, so I won't bother defending it. :)   > But my point remains:  NAT444 is a deployment scenario, which includes a CGN > element.  Other deployment scenarios that also include a CGN element will > ha

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:07, Benson Schliesser > wrote: > >> Broken DNS will result in problems browsing the web. That doesn't make it >> accurate to claim that the web is broken, and it's particularly weak support >> for claims that

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 16:07, Benson Schliesser wrote: > Broken DNS will result in problems browsing the web.  That doesn't make it > accurate to claim that the web is broken, and it's particularly weak support > for claims that email would work better. I don't think that's a great analogy. N

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 18, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: >> The document is titled "Assessing the Impact of NAT444 on Network >> Applications" and it claims to discuss NAT444 issues. However, it conflates >> NAT444 with CGN. And it is often used a

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: >>> >>> There's a bit of critique on the NAT444 document on the BEHAVE IETF WG list. >>> >>> "draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 is somewha

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Zed Usser wrote: > --- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong wrote: >> You only need to solve those problems to the >> extent that there are meaningful things still >> trapped in an IPv4-only world. > Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address exhaustion will not result in >

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 18, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: >> >> There's a bit of critique on the NAT444 document on the BEHAVE IETF WG list. >> >> "draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 is somewhat misleading. It claims to >> analyze NAT444, but it really analy

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Sat, 2/19/11, Owen DeLong wrote: > You only need to solve those problems to the > extent that there are meaningful things still > trapped in an IPv4-only world. Are you willing to bet that IPv4 address exhaustion will not result in IPv6-only hosts before we run out of meaningful IPv4-onl

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Zed Usser wrote: >  Reduce, yes. Remove, no. Without a global cutoff date for the IPv6 > transition, it's not like IPv4 is going to disappear overnight. Furthermore, > without any IPv4/IPv6 translation, the first IPv6 only networks are going to > be awfully lon

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 7:34 AM, Zed Usser wrote: > --- On Fri, 2/18/11, Owen DeLong wrote: > >>> Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some kind of >> NAT/PAT going to be required to join the IPv4 and IPv6 >> domains in all foreseeable futures? If so, aren't we going >> to have to deal with these

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Zed Usser
--- On Fri, 2/18/11, Owen DeLong wrote: > > Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some kind of > NAT/PAT going to be required to join the IPv4 and IPv6 > domains in all foreseeable futures? If so, aren't we going > to have to deal with these issues in any case? > > > No, we need to move forward

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 3:33 AM, Andrew Yourtchenko wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: > >> Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some kind of NAT/PAT going to be >> required to join the IPv4 and IPv6 >> domains in all foreseeable futures? If so, aren't we going to have to

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 3:16 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 18 feb 2011, at 12:00, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > >>> How can they "return" stuff to ARIN that they got from IANA in the first >>> place? > >>> ARIN seems to be getting the very long end of the legacy stick. > >> But last time I c

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:54 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 17 feb 2011, at 18:57, John Curran wrote: > >> Actually, as I have noted before, the US DoD has contractually >> agreed to return to ARIN unneeded IPv4 address space if/when >> such becomes available, so that it may be used by the In

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 17 feb 2011, at 17:35, George Bonser wrote: > >> Considering v4 is likely to be around for another decade or two, getting >> Class E into general use seems easy enough to do. > > You really think people will be communicating over the

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 18, 2011, at 12:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:17, Chris Grundemann wrote: > >> In case you have not already found this: >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 > > There's a bit of critique on the NAT444 document on the BEHAVE IETF WG list. >

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 14:10, Arturo Servin wrote: > When you talk about "unused" legacy space are you talking about the > "various" space or to the legacy space that is currently assigned but the > holders just require part of it? Legacy space (A) = all the /8s marked as "legacy" by IANA.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Arturo Servin
Iljitsch, In deed there were ERX unused space that were divided among RIRs, I think it is referred as "various ERX" (pointed out by Tore). http://bgp.potaroo.net/stats/nro/various.html There were also ERX space transferred from ARIN DB (used to be in InterNIC's) to RIRs becaus

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 18, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 18 feb 2011, at 12:00, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > >>> How can they "return" stuff to ARIN that they got from IANA in the first >>> place? > >>> ARIN seems to be getting the very long end of the legacy stick. > >> But last time I che

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 12:59, Tore Anderson wrote: > Hit your Page Down button a couple of times, it's included right there > in the PDF. I don't see anything that clears this up.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Tore Anderson
* Iljitsch van Beijnum >> http://www.icann.org/correspondence/wilson-to-conrad-28jan08-en.pdf > >> > "Please find attached a summary spreadsheet (Excel format) providing > the agreed distribution of administrative responsibility" Hit your Page Down button a couple of times, it's included right t

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 12:36, Tore Anderson wrote: >> Each of those /8 is >> "administered" by a RIR, but it's unclear (to me at least) whether >> that means that RIR gets to give out that space in its region or not. > The unused space in the ERX blocks were divided evenly between the RIRs > a couple

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Tore Anderson
* Iljitsch van Beijnum > By the way, IANA only deals in /8s. However, a lot of people got > legacy /16s or other non-/8 sizes, so some /8s that are marked > "legacy" actually contain a lot of unused space. Each of those /8 is > "administered" by a RIR, but it's unclear (to me at least) whether > t

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Yourtchenko
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Zed Usser wrote: > Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't some kind of NAT/PAT going to be > required to join the IPv4 and IPv6 > domains in all foreseeable futures? If so, aren't we going to have to deal > with these issues in any case? I'd compare it with bor

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 12:00, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >> How can they "return" stuff to ARIN that they got from IANA in the first >> place? >> ARIN seems to be getting the very long end of the legacy stick. > But last time I checked, the United States is in the ARIN region. And ARIN > did not e

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 feb 2011, at 9:24, Zed Usser wrote: > Basic Internet services will work (web browsing, email, Facebook, > Youtube,...), but: > - Less torrenting > - Less Netflix watching > - Less FTP downloads > - Less video streaming in general (webcams, etc.) You forget: - no IPv6 tunnels Deploying NA

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 18, 2011, at 5:54 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 17 feb 2011, at 18:57, John Curran wrote: > >> Actually, as I have noted before, the US DoD has contractually >> agreed to return to ARIN unneeded IPv4 address space if/when >> such becomes available, so that it may be used by the Inte

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17 feb 2011, at 18:57, John Curran wrote: > Actually, as I have noted before, the US DoD has contractually > agreed to return to ARIN unneeded IPv4 address space if/when > such becomes available, so that it may be used by the Internet > community. How can they "return" stuff to ARIN that they

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17 feb 2011, at 17:35, George Bonser wrote: > Considering v4 is likely to be around for another decade or two, getting > Class E into general use seems easy enough to do. You really think people will be communicating over the public internet using IPv4 in 2031? It will take a long time befor

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-18 Thread Zed Usser
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:17, Chris Grundemann wrote: > In case you have not already found this: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 There's a bit of critique on the NAT444 document on the BEHAVE IETF WG list. "draft-donley-nat444-impacts-01 is somewhat misleading. It

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <00bc01cbcf19$8b3f13d0$a1bd3b70$@iname.com>, "Frank Bulk" writes: > You're invited to work my helpdesk for a week. I'd even pay you. > > It's not just flashing, it's reconfiguring every wireless device in the home > (printer, Wii, Kindle, laptop (that's not home right, will be when Sa

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Frank Bulk
Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:56 PM To: Owen DeLong Cc: NANOG list; John Curran Subject: Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... I think grandma is quite capable of doing it. She just needs to be informed that it needs to be done. Most people that are scared of doing it the

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): > I think grandma is quite capable of doing it. She just needs to > be informed that it needs to be done. On my planet (Earth), this isn't likely ever happen. -Steve

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20110218020622.ga10...@mara.org>, Steve Meuse writes: > Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): > > > > An how many of those embedded linux devices are running a 2.4 kernel? Jus > t lo > > > ok at xx-wrt as an example. If you have a certain chipset, 2.4 is your on > ly o > > > ption.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): > Remember a lot of this problem is the direct result of vendors not > acting soon enough and that includes CISCO. Asking those vendors > to do a bit of work to fixup the results of their bad decisions is > not unreasonable. They can't fix hardware limitati

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): > > An how many of those embedded linux devices are running a 2.4 kernel? Just > > lo > > ok at xx-wrt as an example. If you have a certain chipset, 2.4 is your only > > o > > ption. > > And the work to patch that kernel is minimal if it doesn't already >

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Owen DeLong write s: > > On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > >=20 > > In message <1dbdca5f-16ec-428d-bc46-3bd59a6f4...@delong.com>, Owen = > DeLong write > > s: > >>>=20 > >>> You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't reflash > >>> to support IPv6 a

Re: [arin-ppml] NAT444 rumors (was Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...)

2011-02-17 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 14:17, Benson Schliesser wrote: > If you have more experience (not including rumors) that suggests otherwise, > I'd very much like to hear about it.  I'm open to the possibility that NAT444 > breaks stuff - that feels right in my gut - but I haven't found any valid > ev

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
> > But way way way more time to deploy the patched kernel than to forklift > the > devices with IPv6 capable ones which don't require patching the kernel, > either. > > The kernel patch is, at best, an expensive stop gap. At worst, it is a > counter > productive waste of time. At best it's sligh

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <5f90644c-5457-460f-9bc3-70802b13a...@delong.com>, Owen DeLong > write > s: >>> Cisco is just one example. The fact is it will likely not work in cell phones, home gateways, windows PCs, Mac's, I understand s

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <1dbdca5f-16ec-428d-bc46-3bd59a6f4...@delong.com>, Owen DeLong > write > s: >>> >>> You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't reflash >>> to support IPv6 as there is no space in the flash for the extra >>> code.

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <1dbdca5f-16ec-428d-bc46-3bd59a6f4...@delong.com>, Owen DeLong write s: > > > > You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't reflash > > to support IPv6 as there is no space in the flash for the extra > > code. This should be minimal. A extra PPP/DHCP option and a check

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <20110217203639.ga3...@mara.org>, Steve Meuse writes: >> George Bonser expunged (gbon...@seven.com): >> >>> Considering the amount of linux-based CPE and other network hardware out >>> there (including some Cisco gear), the extent

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20110217203922.gb3...@mara.org>, Steve Meuse writes: > Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): > > > Or to ask CISCO to fix the box so it can route it? In many cases > > it is a minimal change. I don't know whether it is in Cisco 7600 > > They are in the business of selling new gea

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20110217203639.ga3...@mara.org>, Steve Meuse writes: > George Bonser expunged (gbon...@seven.com): > > > Considering the amount of linux-based CPE and other network hardware out > > there (including some Cisco gear), the extent to which it might be > > usable today could be surprising

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <5f90644c-5457-460f-9bc3-70802b13a...@delong.com>, Owen DeLong write s: > > > >> Cisco is just one example. The fact is it will likely not work in > >> cell phones, home gateways, windows PCs, Mac's, I understand > >> some progress has been made... but choose your scope wisely a

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
> > You can reflash CPE devices to support this that you can't reflash > to support IPv6 as there is no space in the flash for the extra > code. This should be minimal. A extra PPP/DHCP option and a check > box to enable (default) / disable setting it. > Reflashing most CPE amounts to forklifti

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
Mark Andrews expunged (ma...@isc.org): > Or to ask CISCO to fix the box so it can route it? In many cases > it is a minimal change. I don't know whether it is in Cisco 7600 They are in the business of selling new gear, not enabling features on EOL equipment :) -Steve

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Meuse
George Bonser expunged (gbon...@seven.com): > Considering the amount of linux-based CPE and other network hardware out > there (including some Cisco gear), the extent to which it might be > usable today could be surprising. An how many of those embedded linux devices are running a 2.4 kernel? Jus

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <32ecc9cd-d927-4407-914c-751316c59...@istaff.org>, John Curran write s: > On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > > >> 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, > >> 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. > > > > Yep, and that

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , Came ron Byrne writes: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:08 AM, John Curran 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 real

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > > > On 2/17/2011 1:25 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Owen DeLong  wrote: IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. >>> >>> ?? >>> Inevitably going to succeed, but, not without heavy loss

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/17/2011 1:25 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. ?? Inevitably going to succeed, but, not without heavy losses in the process? Owen Yes, and also with mass fear and confusion at the

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. > > ?? > Inevitably going to succeed, but, not without heavy losses in the process? > > Owen > > Yes, and also with mass fear and confusion at the beginning. -- Jeffrey Lyon, Lea

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
> >> Cisco is just one example. The fact is it will likely not work in >> cell phones, home gateways, windows PCs, Mac's, I understand >> some progress has been made... but choose your scope wisely and pick >> your battles and know that the weight of the world is against you >> (cisco and m

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
> > IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. ?? Inevitably going to succeed, but, not without heavy losses in the process? Owen

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:57 AM, John Curran wrote: > On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > >> Owen DeLong writes: >>> ... >>> I agree it would be nice if they would voluntarily return whatever >>> is appropriate to the community, but, >> >> You mean like they already did with

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:35 AM, George Bonser wrote: >> >> In other words, you're going to tell Granny she needs to upgrade to >> Windows 8 and/or replace her CPE because you couldn't get your act >> together and deploy >> IPv6 - even though her friends at the bridge club who are customers of >> yo

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread David Israel
On 2/17/2011 1:31 PM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: IPv6's momentum is a lot like a beach landing at Normandy. As in, "large, dedicated, and nigh unstoppable, but fraught with peril and with a lot of mess and destruction to get through before it is done," or as in "mainly opposed by aging crazy Nazis

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
> I asked 2 years ago, and i was told it was not feasible. I escalated, > still no-go, it was a "deep" problem. And they pointed to the IETF > saying no on the above drafts as reason to not dig into the microcode > or whatever to fix it. Ok, so that implies that it is burned into hardware and as

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM, George Bonser wrote: >>> > >>> > 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, >>> > 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. >>> > >>> >>> Yep, and that's great.  Let

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:52 AM, George Bonser wrote: >> > >> > 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, >> > 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. >> > >> >> Yep, and that's great.  Let me know when a Cisco 7600 will route a >> packet like this. >>

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
> > > > I am 100% pro making Class E defined as private unicast space. > > My only point is that people need to be realistic about the near term > benefit. Yes, some linux may work. But, Microsoft and Cisco don't > work today. Let's move it to not-reserved, but don't bet the farm on > 240/4 so

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread John Curran
On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > Owen DeLong writes: >> ... >> I agree it would be nice if they would voluntarily return whatever >> is appropriate to the community, but, > > You mean like they already did with 49/8, 50/8 (both formerly Joint > Technical Command), 10/8 (

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, John Curran wrote: > On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > >>> 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, >>> 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. >> >> Yep, and that's great.  Let me know when a Cisco 7

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
> > > > 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, > > 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. > > > > Yep, and that's great. Let me know when a Cisco 7600 will route a > packet like this. > > Cameron Considering how small of a change it is, simply re

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread John Curran
On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:48 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: >> 240/4 has been enabled in Linux since 2.6.25 (applied on January 21, >> 2008 by David Miller) so that's like three years already. > > Yep, and that's great. Let me know when a Cisco 7600 will route a > packet like this. So, it won't work for

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:46 AM, George Bonser wrote: >> 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 IP

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Owen DeLong writes: > The DoD does not seem particularly anxious to announce or explain > their usage of those blocks to the rest of the community. > > They have much larger quantities of significantly more sophisticated > armaments than ARIN. > > I agree it would be nice if they would voluntari

RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-17 Thread George Bonser
> 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

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