Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-mrt-2006, at 22:08, Owen DeLong wrote: What I hear is any type of geography can't work because network topology != geography. That's like saying cars can't work because they can't drive over water which covers 70% of the earth's surface. No, it's more like saying Cars which can't

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread John Curran
At 1:08 PM -0800 3/6/06, Owen DeLong wrote: I've got no opposition to issuing addresses based on some geotop. design, simply because on the off chance it does provide useful aggregation, why not. OTOH, I haven't seen anyone propose geotop allocation as a policy in the ARIN region (hint to those

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Edward B. DREGER
JC Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:38:50 -0500 JC From: John Curran JC Does anyone have statistics for the present prefix mobility experiment JC in the US with phone number portability? It would be interesting to JC know what percent of personal and business numbers are now routed JC permanently

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hm, I would rather do this globally but maybe this is the way to go... Geo-aggregation is something that stands its best chance of being implemented locally: - the 'players' involved will be fewer - requirements for a workable policy will be

RE: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Tony Hain
Paul Jakma wrote: On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hm, I would rather do this globally but maybe this is the way to go... Geo-aggregation is something that stands its best chance of being implemented locally: While I agree that any aggregation would happen locally, the

RE: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Tony Hain wrote: While I agree that any aggregation would happen locally, the overall allocation policy for a consistent geo approach needs to be done globally. Ideally, yes. Failling that, it's still possible for it to be done unilaterally at a regional level, there

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 7, 2006 1:38:50 PM -0500 John Curran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 1:08 PM -0800 3/6/06, Owen DeLong wrote: I've got no opposition to issuing addresses based on some geotop. design, simply because on the off chance it does provide useful aggregation, why not. OTOH, I haven't seen

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Per Heldal
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:59:18 +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 3 mar 2006, at 04.13, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I would be surprised if Shim6 going into actual deployed boxes was any faster. So, if Shim6 was finalized today, which it won't be, in 2010 we might

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Per Heldal
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:17:26 +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 4-mrt-2006, at 14:07, Kevin Day wrote: [snip] Unless we start now working on getting people moved to IPv6, the pain of running out of IPv4 before IPv6 has reached critical mass is going to be much

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/03/2006 00:16:28: On 3-mrt-2006, at 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The term LIR is used in IPv6 allocation policy in all regions no Yes. I checked all 5 RIR sites and they all use the term LIR in their IPv6 policy. This is by design since the original IPv6

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's face it, IPv6 is close enough to IPv4 that any attempt to put a price on IPv4 addresses will simply cause a massive migration to free and plentiful IPv6 addresses. Let's say we put a price of $1 per year per IP address you want allocated to

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Let's say we put a price of $1 per year per IP address you want allocated to you. For the people really using their IP addresses according to current policy, this is nothing. For the people with historic allocations (/8 for instance), they would

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-mrt-2006, at 3:52, Roland Dobbins wrote: fixed geographic allocations (another nonstarter for reasons which have been elucidated previously) What I hear is any type of geography can't work because network topology != geography. That's like saying cars can't work because they can't

Re: Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG)

2006-03-06 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Roland Dobbins wrote: Given the manifold difficulties we're facing today as a result of these two design decisions (#2 is a 'hidden' reason behind untold amounts of capex and opex being spent in frustratingly nonproductive ways), perhaps it is time to consider declaring

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-mrt-2006, at 2:34, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: What Tony said, especially about what happened to 8+8. A lot of the grounds for rejection were security, but there wasn't a single security person on the committee. In my opinion, most of the arguments just didn't hold up. [RB = routing

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-mrt-2006, at 20:38, Matthew Petach wrote: Hotmail runs shim6 so that multihomed Hotmail users can keep sending mail even when one ISP fails, while Gmail doesn't? The customers who can't reach gmail will call their ISP to complain about the Internet being broken. They're not going to

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Shim6 is an answer to what kind of multihoming can we offer to sites without PI space?; it is yet to be seen if anyone cares about the answer to that question. This argument is circular. The only real way to test demand is to offer a service and see if customers bite.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sadly, many of the folks who are involved with ARIN are sadly short sighted in this regard. They dismiss both the idea of an address market upon v4 exhaustion and the idea of clear title to address blocks. I can imagine a similar

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Tony Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Sprunk wrote: Who exactly has been trying to find scalable routing solutions? Well, for the last decade or so, there's been a small group of us who have been working towards a new routing architecture. Primary influences in my mind are Chiappa,

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's face it, IPv6 is close enough to IPv4 that any attempt to put a price on IPv4 addresses will simply cause a massive migration to free and plentiful IPv6 addresses. You assume that there will be a source of free and plentiful IPv6 addresses. AFAIK, none of

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread David Meyer
Stephen, Thus spake Tony Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen Sprunk wrote: Who exactly has been trying to find scalable routing solutions? Well, for the last decade or so, there's been a small group of us who have been working towards a new routing architecture. Primary influences in my

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Stephen, I'm not a fan of build it and they will come engineering. I suppose a reasonable question one could ask is this: who's the customer? Is the customer the ISP? I tend to actually it's the end enterprise. But that's just me. Eliot

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 6, 2006 12:46:51 PM +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6-mrt-2006, at 3:52, Roland Dobbins wrote: fixed geographic allocations (another nonstarter for reasons which have been elucidated previously) What I hear is any type of geography can't work

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Golding
On 3/6/06 10:25 AM, Stephen Sprunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's face it, IPv6 is close enough to IPv4 that any attempt to put a price on IPv4 addresses will simply cause a massive migration to free and plentiful IPv6 addresses. You assume that there will

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/6/06 10:25 AM, Stephen Sprunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, unless there's policy change, most end-user orgs will have no choice but to pay the market rate for IPv4 addresses. Spot markets are good when demand is elastic, but we're faced with a

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:05:52 -0500 Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ARIN (and/or RIPE, APNIC) should really use a bit of their budget surplus to provide a few grants to economics professors who are experts in commodity market issues. As engineers, we grope in the dark concerning

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Daniel Golding
On 3/6/06 6:14 PM, Stephen Sprunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3/6/06 10:25 AM, Stephen Sprunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, unless there's policy change, most end-user orgs will have no choice but to pay the market rate for IPv4 addresses. Spot

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Owen DeLong
Not to digress too far, but, I guess that depends on your definition of best. I am sure that many peoples of this world would argue that capitalism has been rather catastrophic in terms of resource allocation and resulting effects with regard to oil, for example. Owen

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-06 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's face it, IPv6 is close enough to IPv4 that any attempt to put a price on IPv4 addresses will simply cause a massive migration to free and plentiful IPv6 addresses. You assume that there will be a source of free and plentiful IPv6 addresses. Why

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 4-Mar-2006, at 23:48, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Joe Abley wrote: No support in big networks is required, beyond the presence of shim6 in server stacks. Why do you say this? Enterprises who multihome need their client machines (tens and hundreds of thousands

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-mrt-2006, at 5:48, Roland Dobbins wrote: This fundamental misconception of the requirements of large enterprise customers should be an indicator to proponents of shim6, among others, that they do not have a good grasp of the day-to-day operational and business realities faced by

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-mrt-2006, at 12:09, Ian Dickinson wrote: As an irrelevent aside, when someone comes up with a way to firewall/acl shim6, how much breaks? The idea is that there will be a shim6 header that can do two things: carry shim6 signalling and carry data packets with rewritten addresses

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
(oh how I'm going to regret jumping into this conversation at point 'here' not at the beginning :( ) On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 5-mrt-2006, at 5:48, Roland Dobbins wrote: This fundamental misconception of the requirements of large enterprise customers should be an

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Owen DeLong
You are absolutely right that having to upgrade not only all hosts in a multihomed site, but also all the hosts they communicate with is an important weakness of shim6. We looked very hard at ways to do this type of multihoming that would work if only the hosts in the multihomed site were

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-05 Thread Geoff Huston
At 07:37 AM 4/03/2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Mar 3, 2006, at 5:55 AM, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 2 mar 2006, at 06.16, Kevin Day wrote: No, I'm just trying to be practical here... Estimates of IPv4 pool exhaustion range from Mid 2008 (Tony Hain's ARIN presentation) to roughly

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-05 Thread Geoff Huston
At 07:43 AM 4/03/2006, Brandon Ross wrote: On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will actually happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4 address space. That's a sucker bet. What's worse is that unless people start

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5-Mar-2006, at 14:16, Owen DeLong wrote: It flies if you look at changing the routing paradigm instead of pushing routing decisions out of the routers and off to the hosts. Source Routing is a technology that most of the internet figured out is problematic years ago. Making source

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5-Mar-2006, at 17:03, Stephen Sprunk wrote: All this time, energy, and thought spent on shim6 would have been better spent on a scalable IDR solution. Luckily, we still have another decade or so to come up with something. So the answer to the lack of a routing solution to

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Tony Li
Stephen Sprunk wrote: Who exactly has been trying to find scalable routing solutions? Well, for the last decade or so, there's been a small group of us who have been working towards a new routing architecture. Primary influences in my mind are Chiappa, O'Dell, Hain, Hinden, Nordmark,

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
What Tony said, especially about what happened to 8+8. A lot of the grounds for rejection were security, but there wasn't a single security person on the committee. In my opinion, most of the arguments just didn't hold up. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 5, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Joe Abley wrote: Very little time has been spent on shim6 so far. Far more time before that was spent on multi6, which considered many different approaches to multi-homing. Spending time in and of itself has no value, you're entirely correct. Spending time

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 5, 2006 3:28:05 PM -0500 Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5-Mar-2006, at 14:16, Owen DeLong wrote: It flies if you look at changing the routing paradigm instead of pushing routing decisions out of the routers and off to the hosts. Source Routing is a technology

Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG)

2006-03-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Far from it, but, there are lessons to be learned that are applicable to the internet, and, separating the end system identifier from the routing function is one we still seem determined to avoid for reasons passing my understanding. And this

Re: Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG)

2006-03-05 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Responder a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 19:19:46 -0800 Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG) On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Far from it, but, there are lessons to be learned that are applicable to the internet

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-04 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
On 3 mar 2006, at 04.13, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I would be surprised if Shim6 going into actual deployed boxes was any faster. So, if Shim6 was finalized today, which it won't be, in 2010 we might have 70% deployment and in 2012 we might have 90% deployment. OTOH Teredo, which isn't

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-04 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
On 3 mar 2006, at 21.37, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will actually happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4 address space. I won't bet against you, but it will only take you that far. At one point IPv4 addresses will just

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-04 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 4, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 3 mar 2006, at 21.37, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will actually happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4 address space. I won't bet against you, but it will only

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-04 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:59:18 +0100 Kurt Erik Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3 mar 2006, at 04.13, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I would be surprised if Shim6 going into actual deployed boxes was any faster. So, if Shim6 was finalized today, which it won't be, in 2010 we might

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Andy Davidson
Mark Newton wrote: I mean, who accepts prefixes longer than /24 these days anyway? We've all decided that we can live without any network smaller than 254 hosts and it hasn't made a lick of difference to universal reachability. What's to stop someone who wants to carry around less prefixes

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Michael . Dillon
If you feel you should qualify as an LIR, With RIPE, an LIR is simply an organization that pays the membership fee and thus gets to submit requests for address space and AS numbers. ARIN doesn't seem to use this terminology except in their IPv6 address allocation policy. That's what

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Michael . Dillon
Right now, DDoS attacks from Botnets are bad enough. DDos!?!?!? What about the $1 billion dollars of clickbot fraud that the advertising industry is presently struggling with? Has anyone ever put a figure on the cost of DDos per year? Where is the IETF leadership? Not on the NANOG list...

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3-mrt-2006, at 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you feel you should qualify as an LIR, With RIPE, an LIR is simply an organization that pays the membership fee and thus gets to submit requests for address space and AS numbers. ARIN doesn't seem to use this terminology except in their

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 3-mrt-2006, at 0:22, Mark Newton wrote: Right now we can hand them out to anyone who demonstrates a need for them. When they run out we'll need to be able to reallocate address blocks which have already been handed out from orgs who perhaps

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
On 2 mar 2006, at 06.16, Kevin Day wrote: No, I'm just trying to be practical here... Estimates of IPv4 pool exhaustion range from Mid 2008 (Tony Hain's ARIN presentation) to roughly 2012 (Geoff Huston's ARIN presentation). Sooner if a mad dash for space starts happening (or isn't

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Daniel Golding
On 3/3/06 11:04 AM, Stephen Sprunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keep in mind that current RIR allocations/assignments are effectively leases (though the RIRs deny that fact) and, like any landlord, they can refuse to renew a lease or increase the rent at any point. There might be some

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Tony Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marshall, That's after 6 years. I would be surprised if Shim6 going into actual deployed boxes was any faster. So, if Shim6 was finalized today, which it won't be, in 2010 we might have 70% deployment and in 2012 we might have 90% deployment. I actually

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3-mrt-2006, at 17:04, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Keep in mind that current RIR allocations/assignments are effectively leases (though the RIRs deny that fact) and, like any landlord, they can refuse to renew a lease or increase the rent at any point. I can only imagine the fun the lawyers

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man, I hope I never become as cynical as you. A pessimist is never disappointed. On 2-mrt-2006, at 11:09, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Why is it even remotely rational that a corporate admin trust 100k+ hosts infested with worms, virii, spam,

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 3, 2006, at 5:55 AM, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 2 mar 2006, at 06.16, Kevin Day wrote: No, I'm just trying to be practical here... Estimates of IPv4 pool exhaustion range from Mid 2008 (Tony Hain's ARIN presentation) to roughly 2012 (Geoff Huston's ARIN presentation). Sooner

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Brandon Ross
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will actually happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4 address space. That's a sucker bet. What's worse is that unless people start changing their tune soon and make the

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3-mrt-2006, at 21:43, Brandon Ross wrote: I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will actually happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4 address space. That's a sucker bet. What's worse is that unless people start changing their tune soon and make the

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Randy Bush
On 3-mrt-2006, at 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The term LIR is used in IPv6 allocation policy in all regions no

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Andrew Dul
At 08:16 AM 3/4/2006 +0800, Randy Bush wrote: On 3-mrt-2006, at 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The term LIR is used in IPv6 allocation policy in all regions no Hmm...sure looks like it to me http://lacnic.net/en/politicas/ipv6.html 2.4 A Local Internet Registry (LIR) is an IR that

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 10:30:44AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you feel you should qualify as an LIR, With RIPE, an LIR is simply an organization that pays the membership fee and thus gets to submit requests for address space and AS numbers. ARIN doesn't seem to use this

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:50:55PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 3-mrt-2006, at 21:43, Brandon Ross wrote: I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will actually happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4 address space. That's a sucker bet.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Tony Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm more confident that we'll find an answer to the IDR problem sooner than we'll convince people to act in the good of the community at their own expense. The solution to the IDR problem is to have a scalable routing architecture. Unfortunately, that

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Edward B. DREGER
SS Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 20:05:36 -0600 SS From: Stephen Sprunk SS Unfortunately, that involves change from the status quo, and thus SS altruistic action. SS SS Only when self-interest and altruism are coincident is the latter SS consistently achieved. Witness BCP38, spam/worm cleanup,

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Randy Bush
On 3-mrt-2006, at 11:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The term LIR is used in IPv6 allocation policy in all regions no Hmm...sure looks like it to me i stand corrected. apologies. randy

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Tony Li
The alternative, of course, is to wait for IDR to implode and let the finger-pointing begin. ... which is what I expect to happen. A few folks will see it coming, design a fix, and everyone will deploy it overnight when they discover they have no other choice. Isn't that about what

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-03 Thread Geoff Huston
One thing that Geoff hasn't been cynical enough to put forward is the idea that orgs with lots of valuable, monetized address space may very well end up lobbying the IAB and RIRs to erect new cost structures around green-fields IPv6 allocations as well, to make sure that the profit-providing

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
The scope of that policy mediation function depends strongly on people like you saying at a high level, this is the kind of decision I am not happy with the hosts making. Resounding YES - I specifically DON'T want end-hosts to be able to make these decisions, but need to be

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:55, David Barak wrote: It isn't fearing change to ask the question it's not broken today, why should I fix it? What's broken today is that there's no mechanism available for people who don't qualify for v6 PI space to multi-home.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread David Barak
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Resounding YES - I specifically DON'T want end-hosts to be able to make these decisions, but need to be able to multihome. When I see comments like this I wonder whether people understand what shim6 is all about. First of all, these aren't YOUR hosts.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Edward B. DREGER
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:07:33 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ snip ] Is there something inherently wrong with independent organizations deciding where to send their packets? 1. Many a transit seems to think so. 2. Is there an inherent need? 3. Is this DPA+sourceroute cocktail the best

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ome. When I see comments like this I wonder whether people understand what shim6 is all about. First of all, these aren't YOUR hosts. They belong to somebody else. If you are an access provider then these hosts belong to a customer that is

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
Putting the routing decisions in the hands of the servers(that we do not control) requires that we somehow impart this routing policy on our customers, make them keep it up to date when we change things, and somehow enforce that they don't break the policy. The same problems exist, on a

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-mrt-2006, at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, it would be extremely unwise for an ISP or an enterprise to rely on shim6 for multihoming. Fortunately they won't have to do this because the BGP multihoming option will be available. I guess you have a better crystal ball than I do.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 2, 2006, at 7:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, it would be extremely unwise for an ISP or an enterprise to rely on shim6 for multihoming. Fortunately they won't have to do this because the BGP multihoming option will be available. Are you *sure* BGP multihoming will be

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
Man, I hope I never become as cynical as you. On 2-mrt-2006, at 11:09, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Why is it even remotely rational that a corporate admin trust 100k+ hosts infested with worms, virii, spam, malware, etc. to handle multihoming decisions? They trust those hosts to do congestion

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:51:43PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Now, some may take that as a sign the IETF needs to figure out how to handle 10^6 BGP prefixes... I'm not sure we'll be there for a few years with IPv6, but sooner or later we will, and someone needs to figure

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
So learn to love shim6 or help create something better. Complaining isn't going to solve anything. I am helping to create something better by supporting the IPv6 PI address policy on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go here http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html to subscribe or to read the archives.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-mrt-2006, at 16:20, Mark Newton wrote: Now, some may take that as a sign the IETF needs to figure out how to handle 10^6 BGP prefixes... I'm not sure we'll be there for a few years with IPv6, but sooner or later we will, and someone needs to figure out what the Internet is going to look

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
If all of your hosting is shared, the servers are your responsibility, and you're not providing connectivity to anyone but yourself. I don't think you qualify at all at this point. If you're selling dedicated servers or colo space, it's a little better, but I still don't think you fit.

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel Golding
On 3/2/06 7:57 AM, Edward B. DREGER [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:07:33 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ snip ] Is there something inherently wrong with independent organizations deciding where to send their packets? 1. Many a transit seems to think so. 2. Is

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-mrt-2006, at 17:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you feel you should qualify as an LIR, With RIPE, an LIR is simply an organization that pays the membership fee and thus gets to submit requests for address space and AS numbers. ARIN doesn't seem to use this terminology except in

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 2, 2006 3:15:59 PM +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2-mrt-2006, at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, it would be extremely unwise for an ISP or an enterprise to rely on shim6 for multihoming. Fortunately they won't have to do this because the BGP

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
Please consider also 2005-1 at http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2005_1.html Owen pgpg8cW8ERncu.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
The other PI assignment policies that have been proposed either require that you have a /19 already in IPv4 (lots of hosting companies don't have anything this size), or have tens/hundreds of thousands of devices. It has also been suggested that the simple presence of multihoming

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-mrt-2006, at 22:27, Owen DeLong wrote: One thing is very certain: today, a lot of people who have their own PI or even PA block with IPv4, don't qualify for one with IPv6. While it's certainly possible that the rules will be changed such that more people can get an IPv6 PI or PA

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Gustavo Lozano
At 11:27 AM 3/2/2006 -0500, Daniel Golding wrote: There is a tremendous amount of effort being wasted here arguing against it and even more so in the IETF, where time being wasted on shim6 could be better spent on a new IDR paradigm. Where is the IETF leadership? I think the IRTF is the

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3-mrt-2006, at 0:22, Mark Newton wrote: You've probably seen Geoff Huston's comments about this; I tend to agree with him here. Geoff tends to make lots of comments, it's hard to either agree or disagree with them all. :-) When IPv4 space is exhausted, the sky won't fall; We'll

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Thu 02 Mar 2006, 17:03 CET]: If your current business model means that your business cannot continue in an IPv6 world, then a competent business manager will change that model. If the IPv6 I assume that you mean that the IPv6 model will be changed, no?

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Randy Bush
Shim6 is an answer to what kind of multihoming can we offer to sites without PI space? as far as i can tell, s/sites/hosts/. to make it work for sites, as yet unspecified middleware (adding even more complexity and thus further reducing reliability (and margins)) will be needed if there is

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; On Mar 1, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 1-Mar-2006, at 10:33, John Payne wrote: On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Joe Abley wrote: Shim6 also has some features which aren't possible with the swamp -- for example, it allows *everybody* to multi-home, down to people whose

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-02 Thread Tony Li
Marshall, That's after 6 years. I would be surprised if Shim6 going into actual deployed boxes was any faster. So, if Shim6 was finalized today, which it won't be, in 2010 we might have 70% deployment and in 2012 we might have 90% deployment. I actually think that 2012 would be a more

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 02:56, Kevin Day wrote: On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:47 AM, Joe Abley wrote: o a small to medium multi-homed tier-n isp A small-to-medium, multi-homed, tier-n ISP can get PI space from their RIR, and don't need to worry about shim6 at all. Ditto larger ISPs, up to and

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-01 Thread John Payne
On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Joe Abley wrote: Shim6 also has some features which aren't possible with the swamp -- for example, it allows *everybody* to multi-home, down to people whose entire infrastructure consists of an individual device, and to do so in a scaleable way. Only if

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 10:33, John Payne wrote: On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Joe Abley wrote: Shim6 also has some features which aren't possible with the swamp -- for example, it allows *everybody* to multi-home, down to people whose entire infrastructure consists of an individual device,

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-01 Thread Brandon Butterworth
There is talk at present of whether the protocol needs to be able to accommodate a site-policy middlebox function to enforce site policy Certainly, firewalls may be the only point such policy will work when the hosts are hidden behind them on a corporate lan 10 years of host legacy

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-03-01 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:33:51AM -0500, John Payne wrote: On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:52 AM, Joe Abley wrote: Shim6 also has some features which aren't possible with the swamp -- for example, it allows *everybody* to multi-home, down to people whose entire infrastructure consists of an

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