--On Wednesday, March 26, 2003 20:05:11 -0600 Stephen Sprunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus spake "Fred Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > - Customers that are stupid enough... >> >> Someone else's stupidity is not my problem. > > As a vendor, every customer problem is your problem. > > Go visit some Fortune 500 customers and ask: > . Are you aware you won't be able to get portable IPv6 addresses? > . How would you like to renumber your entire network every year? > . How would you like us to sell you IPv6 NATs so you'll never have to > renumber again? Most F500 customers or similar have their own AS numbers. They can easily become a LIR and get their own assignment. Most of the things making renumbering hard are issues with short-sighted "optimisations", like host files instead of DNS, IP addresses in applications, and similar. These all can be taken away in time -- most of the applications that suggest this behaviour are v4-only today, and thus NOW is the time to act decisively to get the message out: "Prepare to renumber". As Fred wrote; it is already today possible to build with caution to make renumbering easy. You as a vendor should, instead of making paint-oneself-into-corners misbehaviour possible, make it intuitive to DTRT. -- Måns Nilsson http://vvv.besserwisser.org
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