For those that missed the presentation, it was a real eye-opener on just how important it is for you to move forward with IPv6 before something like this actually starts getting implemented.
Owen On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Todd Underwood wrote: > jon, all, > > i've received several questions about the context of this mail, so i > thought it would be worth posting to clear up the reference. > > for those who missed it, i presented a lightning talk at nanog 49 in > san francisco yesterday on some very early conceptual work on a really > interesting strategy to dramatically extend the useful life of v4 > prefixes. the talk is linked from: > http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/agenda.php and i encourage people to > take a look at it. > > if you like the general idea (Probabilistic Assignment of Prefixes: a > System for Managing and Extending Address Resources is what some > people are starting to call it), i'd encourage you to take the > suggestion made at the mic by mark kosters, cto of arin, and work to > help refine the proposal and establish a useful policy framework > around its implementation. > > work is needed especially in collision domain modeling and count of > resource implications for the operational overhead per prefix. > experience with high flow rate instrumentation is likely to be needed > in the near future as well. > > i wanted to thank everyone for the kind words and suggestions after > the presentation and look forward to productively exploring this idea. > > cheers, > > todd underwood > toddun...@gmail.com