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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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

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

2006-03-01 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? The jerking knees become tedious to watch, after a while. Okay, if I'm an enterprise with 6 ISPs but don't qualify for PI space, I'll need to get PA space from all of them, for Shim6 to work,

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:22, David Barak wrote: Also, the current drafts don't support middleboxes, which a huge number of enterprises use - in fact the drafts specifically preclude their existence, which renders this a complete non-starter for most of my clients. I have not yet reviewed the

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

2006-03-01 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just one guy, one ASN, and one content/hosting network. But I can tell you that to switch to using shim6 instead of BGP speaking would be a complete overhaul of how we do things. You are not alone in fearing change. It isn't fearing

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:55, David Barak wrote: --- Joe Abley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just one guy, one ASN, and one content/hosting network. But I can tell you that to switch to using shim6 instead of BGP speaking would be a complete overhaul of how we do things. You are not alone in

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

2006-03-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-mrt-2006, at 17:22, David Barak wrote: I think that we could spend our time better in coming up with a different approach to addressing hierarchy instead. I agree. The address space is one dimensional. This means you can encode a single thing in it in a hierarchical manner for free.

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 1, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 1-Mar-2006, at 02:56, Kevin Day wrote: If you include Web hosting company in your definition of ISP, that's not true. Right. I wasn't; I listed them separately. It's important to note that even if you are a hosting company who *does*

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 13:32, Kevin Day wrote: We have peering arrangements with about 120 ASNs. How do we mix BGP IPv6 peering and Shim6 for transit? You advertise all your PA netblocks to all your peers. Ok, I was a bit too vague there... How do we ensure that peering connections are

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Loch
Kevin Day wrote: If you include Web hosting company in your definition of ISP, that's not true. Unless you're providing connectivity to 200 or more networks, you can't get a /32. If all of your use is internal(fully managed hosting) or aren't selling leased lines or anything, you are not

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 18:29, Randy Bush wrote: You will note I have glossed over several hundred minor details (and several hundred more not-so-minor ones). The protocols are not yet published; there is no known implementation. possibly this contributes to the sceptisim with which this is

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Day
For those watching and grumbling, I'll move the discussion to a shim6 mailing list, or in private if anyone wants to continue beyond this. Just make sure you cc: me if you move the discussion somewhere else. On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 1-Mar-2006, at 13:32, Kevin

A shim6 summary paper [Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)]

2006-03-01 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Lucy E. Lynch wrote: point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed enterprise customer o a small to medium multi-homed tier-n isp never under-estimate the range and productivity of Pekka!

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

2006-02-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
[Crossposted to shim6 and NANOG lists, please don't make me regret this... Replies are probably best sent to just one list for people who don't subscribe to both.] On 27-feb-2006, at 22:13, Jason Schiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is it the consensus of the shim6 working group that the

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

2006-02-28 Thread Todd Vierling
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: A --- B / \ X Y \ / C --- D C's link to D may be low capacity or expensive, so D would prefer it if X would send traffic to Y over another route if possible. C can make this happen in BGP by prepending

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: [Crossposted to shim6 and NANOG lists, please don't make me regret this... Replies are probably best sent to just one list for people who don't subscribe to both.] On 27-feb-2006, at 22:13, Jason Schiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28-Feb-2006, at 11:09, Kevin Day wrote: Some problems/issues that are solved by current IPv4 TE practices that we are currently using, that we can't do easily in Shim6: Just to be clear, are you speaking from the perspective of an access provider, or of an enterprise? Joe

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Feb 28, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 28-Feb-2006, at 11:09, Kevin Day wrote: Some problems/issues that are solved by current IPv4 TE practices that we are currently using, that we can't do easily in Shim6: Just to be clear, are you speaking from the perspective of an

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28-Feb-2006, at 11:52, Kevin Day wrote: I'm not saying shim6 is flawed beyond anyone being able to use it. I can see many scenarios where it would work great. However, I'm really wary of it becoming the de facto standard for how *everyone* multihomes if they're under a certain size.

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

2006-02-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-feb-2006, at 16:34, Todd Vierling wrote: A B Y C C C D Y All else being equal, X will choose the path over A to reach Y. There's plenty of route mangler technologies out there that provide overriding BGP information to borders that trumps path length. All else is often not as

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

2006-02-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-feb-2006, at 17:09, Kevin Day wrote: Some problems/issues that are solved by current IPv4 TE practices that we are currently using, that we can't do easily in Shim6: Well, you can't do anything with shim6 because it doesn't exist yet. That's the good part: if you speak up now, you

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

2006-02-28 Thread John Payne
On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators control the DNS for the end hosts come from?

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

2006-02-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-feb-2006, at 23:15, John Payne wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators control the DNS for the end hosts come from? ...or in another way. Don't worry too much about this

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

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 28, 2006 5:15:37 PM -0500 John Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 28-feb-2006, at 17:09, Kevin Day wrote: 4) Being able to do 1-3 in realtime, in one place, without waiting for DNS caching or connections to expire How fast is real time? And are we just talking about changing preferences

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Feb 28, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 28-feb-2006, at 23:15, John Payne wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators control the DNS for the end hosts come

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28-Feb-2006, at 23:37, Daniel Golding wrote: Unacceptable. This is the whole problem with shim6 - the IETF telling us to sit back and enjoy it, because your vendors know what's best. Actually, I think the problem with shim6 is that there are far too few operators involved in

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

2006-02-28 Thread Christian Kuhtz
On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:00 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 28-Feb-2006, at 23:37, Daniel Golding wrote: Unacceptable. This is the whole problem with shim6 - the IETF telling us to sit back and enjoy it, because your vendors know what's best. Actually, I think the problem with shim6 is that there

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

2006-02-28 Thread Randy Bush
How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? good question. to give such discussion a base, could you point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed enterprise customer o a small to medium

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 01:09, Randy Bush wrote: How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? good question. to give such discussion a base, could you point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 01:06, Christian Kuhtz wrote: However, the only alternative on the table is a v6 swamp. Would that really be so bad? I keep being bonked on the head by this thing called Moore's law. I don't know that anybody can tell how bad it might be. It'd be a shame if it

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

2005-11-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 26-okt-2005, at 19:36, David Meyer wrote: Thanks. I'd also like to thank Geoff, Jason, Vijay, Ted, and everyone to participated in the BOF. I found the session to be quite productive, and I hope that it will form the foundation for an ongoing dialog. I was

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

2005-11-01 Thread Susan Harris
I was hoping to have all of this streamed to my computer, but so far, there are no archived streams... Aren't there any archived streams anymore, or does it take some more time for them to appear? The latter. We're processing the streams now, and they should be available next week.

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

2005-10-26 Thread David Meyer
John, On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:08:50AM +1000, Geoff Huston wrote: From: John Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: shim6 @ NANOG Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:11:45 -0400 Public thanks to Dave, Geoff, Vijay, Ted and Jason for their involvement in bringing shim6 to the NANOG

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