Re: legacy /8

[jim deleskie <deleskie () gmail com>]

I haven't seen anything, not to say there isn't, but I would certainly
be open to the idea. From an operational point of view to me it seems
much more straight forward then v6.
-jim

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:29 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
<nanog2 () adns net> wrote:
> Is someone volunteering to work on an RFC?  Or, has someone done so for this
> already?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "jim deleskie" <deleskie () 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 <gbonser () seven com> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jim Burwell [mailto:jimb () 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.
> >
> > :)