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Re: legacy /8
From: David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:07:27 -1000
On Apr 3, 2010, at 8:25 AM, George Bonser wrote:
The point is that v6 was a bad solution to the problem.
Well, yes, but...
Rather than simply address the address depletion problem, it also "solves" a lot of problems that nobody has while creating a whole bunch more that we will have.
Not really. The only problem IPv6 really solves (that couldn't be solved in one way or another in IPv4) was the limited amount of address space. Well, OK. IPv6 also does stateless autoconfiguration for folks who care about that, but you can (after much battle with the IETF) mostly ignore that if you don't care. IPv6 doesn't, unfortunately, solve the real problem which is routing system scalability, but that's a separate rant.
And they made v4 incompatible with v6 rather really addressing the problem.
How would you propose making going from a smaller fixed address space to a larger one backwards compatible? How would you deal with the myriad of applications that 'know' an IP address fits into a 32 bit "int" and make use of that fact?
I am not saying we can change it at this point but I am saying we should learn from it and never, ever, do things this way again.
Which is, I think, why some folks argue for more conservatism in address allocation policy. Regards, -drc
Current thread:
- Re: legacy /8, (continued)
- Re: legacy /8 Mark Smith (Apr 02)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Michael Dillon (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Larry Sheldon (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Larry Sheldon (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Mark Andrews (Apr 03)
- RE: legacy /8 George Bonser (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 David Conrad (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Randy Bush (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Mark Smith (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 David Barak (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Mark Smith (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Vadim Antonov (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Adrian Chadd (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Dan White (Apr 03)
- Re: legacy /8 Zaid Ali (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 Vadim Antonov (Apr 04)
- Re: legacy /8 Zaid Ali (Apr 04)