I haven't seen anything, not to say there isn't, but I would certainly be open to the idea. From an operational point of view to me it seems much more straight forward then v6. -jim
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:29 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) <[email protected]> wrote: > Is someone volunteering to work on an RFC? Or, has someone done so for this > already? > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "jim deleskie" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:17 PM > Subject: Re: legacy /8 > > > I'm old but maybe not old nuff to know if this was discussed before or > not, but I've been asking people last few months why we don't just do > something like this. don't even need to get rid of BGP, just add some > extension, we see ok to add extensions to BGP to do other things, this > makes at least if not more sence. > > > -jim > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:13 PM, George Bonser <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jim Burwell [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 6:00 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: legacy /8 >> >> >>> So, jump through hoops to kludge up IPv4 so it continues to provide >>> address space for new allocations through multiple levels of NAT (or >>> whatever), and buy a bit more time, or jump through the hoops required >>> to deploy IPv6 and eliminate the exhaustion problem? And also, if the >>> IPv4 space is horse-traded among RIRs and customers as you allude to >>> above, IPv6 will look even more attactive as the price and >> >> preciousness >>> >>> of IPv4 addresses increases. >> >> No problem, everyone tunnels v4 in v4 and the "outer" ip address is >> your 32-bit ASN and you get an entire /0 of "legacy" ip space inside >> your ASN. Just need to get rid of BGP and go to some sort of label >> switching with the border routers having an ASN to upstream label table >> and there ya go. Oh, and probably create an AA RR in DNS that is in >> ASN:x.x.x.x format. Increase the MTU a little and whammo! There ya go! >> Done. >> >> :) >> >> >> > > > > >
