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Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 13:46:04 -0800
On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 12:40 PM Fred Baker <fredbaker.ietf () gmail com> wrote:
I'm not sure what has changed in the past lotsa years other than which prefix people want to make essentially the same arguments about. My observation has been that people don't want to extend the life of IPv4 per se; people want to keep using it for another very short time interval and then blame someone else for the fact that the 32 bit integers are a finite set.
Hi Fred, The detractors for this proposal and those like it make the core claim that we shouldn't take the long view improving IPv4 because IPv6 is going to replace it any day now. Each day that passes with the end of IPv4 still not in sight demonstrates how very wrong that strategy is. If there's a change we can make to a standard now which will result in IPv4 being better 20 years from now, we should make it. We should hope that we never need the result because IPv6 takes over the world but we should make the change anyway. Because hedging our bets is what responsible people do. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill () herrin us https://bill.herrin.us/
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- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public, (continued)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Carsten Bormann (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public bzs (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Masataka Ohta (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public John Curran (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public jim deleskie (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Justin Keller (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Jay R. Ashworth (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Fred Baker (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Joe Maimon (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Måns Nilsson (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public William Herrin (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Masataka Ohta (Nov 19)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Måns Nilsson (Nov 19)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Masataka Ohta (Nov 19)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Måns Nilsson (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Matthew Walster (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Måns Nilsson (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Matthew Walster (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Måns Nilsson (Nov 20)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Jay R. Ashworth (Nov 18)
- Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public Carsten Bormann (Nov 18)