On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:05:22PM +0300, Jari Arkko wrote:
> David,
>
> > We had an opportunity to fix that, but we blew it.
>
> I think everyone agrees that having that flexibility
> (ease of renumbering, no routing explosion in the
> core etc) would be good.
>
> But I would suggest that instead of playing the
> "what if" or "I told you so" games, we collectively
> focus on solving the problem. And getting it solved
> means having a solution that actually works, has all
> the little details (like what the security is etc) worked
> out, fits with the incentives that the various players
> have, and so on.
>
> And we have a place for that work to happen in the
> IRTF. There's a lot of promising work, but they
> don't have a final solution yet; the details do matter
> (and I suspect that they also mattered back at the
> time IPv6 was being designed).
>
> Jari
the old PIER wg had some useful ideas on the
scope fo the renumbering problem... if the
IRTF wants to revisit the problem that might
be a good place to start.
--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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