Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 7, 2006 1:38:50 PM -0500 John Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 1:08 PM -0800 3/6/06, Owen DeLong wrote: I've got no opposition to issuing addresses based on some geotop. design, simply because on the off chance it does provide useful aggregation, why not. OTOH, I haven't seen

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 7, 2006 4:29:28 PM +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6-mrt-2006, at 22:08, Owen DeLong wrote: What I hear is "any type of geography can't work because network topology != geography". That's like saying cars can't work because they can't drive over water w

RE: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Tony Hain wrote: While I agree that any aggregation would happen locally, the overall allocation policy for a consistent geo approach needs to be done globally. Ideally, yes. Failling that, it's still possible for it to be done unilaterally at a regional level, there wou

RE: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Tony Hain
Paul Jakma wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > > Hm, I would rather do this globally but maybe this is the way to go... > > Geo-aggregation is something that stands its best chance of being > implemented locally: While I agree that any aggregation would happen locally,

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hm, I would rather do this globally but maybe this is the way to go... Geo-aggregation is something that stands its best chance of being implemented locally: - the 'players' involved will be fewer - requirements for a workable policy will be

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Edward B. DREGER
JC> Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 13:38:50 -0500 JC> From: John Curran JC> Does anyone have statistics for the present prefix mobility experiment JC> in the US with phone number portability? It would be interesting to JC> know what percent of personal and business numbers are now routed JC> permanently

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread John Curran
At 1:08 PM -0800 3/6/06, Owen DeLong wrote: >I've got no opposition to issuing addresses based on some geotop. design, >simply because on the off chance it does provide useful aggregation, why >not. OTOH, I haven't seen anyone propose geotop allocation as a policy >in the ARIN region (hint to tho

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-07 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-mrt-2006, at 22:08, Owen DeLong wrote: What I hear is "any type of geography can't work because network topology != geography". That's like saying cars can't work because they can't drive over water which covers 70% of the earth's surface. No, it's more like saying "Cars which can't

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 addre

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 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

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 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

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

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 6, 2006 12:46:51 PM +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6-mrt-2006, at 3:52, Roland Dobbins wrote: > >> fixed geographic allocations (another nonstarter for reasons which >> have been elucidated previously) > > What I hear is "any type of geography can't

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 Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Eliot Lear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 t

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread David Meyer
Stephen, > Thus spake "Tony Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Stephen Sprunk wrote: > >>Who exactly has been trying to find scalable routing solutions? > > > >Well, for the last decade or so, there's been a small group of us who > >have been working towards a new routing architecture. Primary >

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

2006-03-06 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Tony Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Stephen Sprunk wrote: Who exactly has been trying to find scalable routing solutions? Well, for the last decade or so, there's been a small group of us who have been working towards a new routing architecture. Primary influences in my mind are Chiappa

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 sce

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

2006-03-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-mrt-2006, at 20:38, Matthew Petach wrote: Hotmail runs shim6 so that multihomed Hotmail users can keep sending mail even when one ISP fails, while Gmail doesn't? The customers who can't reach gmail will call their ISP to complain about the Internet being broken. They're not going to c

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-mrt-2006, at 2:34, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: What Tony said, especially about what happened to 8+8. A lot of the grounds for rejection were security, but there wasn't a single security person on the committee. In my opinion, most of the arguments just didn't hold up. [RB = routing b

Re: Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG)

2006-03-06 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Roland Dobbins wrote: Given the manifold difficulties we're facing today as a result of these two design decisions (#2 is a 'hidden' reason behind untold amounts of capex and opex being spent in frustratingly nonproductive ways), perhaps it is time to consider declaring t

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-mrt-2006, at 3:52, Roland Dobbins wrote: fixed geographic allocations (another nonstarter for reasons which have been elucidated previously) What I hear is "any type of geography can't work because network topology != geography". That's like saying cars can't work because they can't

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

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

2006-03-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
> I can tell you this: the only scalable solutions > on the horizon are: > > - moving multihoming related state out of the DFZ (this is what shim6 > does) This is what geo-topological addressing does. > - remove the requirement that every DFZ router carries every prefix, > which can't be don

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 origina

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

2006-03-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
> 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 scenario in the boardrooms of Exxon et al. A young executiv

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-06 Thread Per Heldal
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 20:17:26 +0100, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On 4-mrt-2006, at 14:07, Kevin Day wrote: > [snip] > > > Unless we start now working on getting people moved to IPv6, the > > pain of running out of IPv4 before IPv6 has reached critical mass > > is goin

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 20

Re: Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG)

2006-03-05 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
> De: Roland Dobbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Responder a: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 19:19:46 -0800 > Para: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asunto: Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG) > > > > On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: &g

Time for IPv8? (was Re: shim6 @ NANOG)

2006-03-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 5, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Far from it, but, there are lessons to be learned that are applicable to the internet, and, separating the end system identifier from the routing function is one we still seem determined to avoid for reasons passing my understanding. And this is

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 5, 2006 3:28:05 PM -0500 Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5-Mar-2006, at 14:16, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> It flies if you look at changing the routing paradigm instead of >> pushing >> routing decisions out of the routers and off to the hosts. Source >> Routing >> is a

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 5, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Joe Abley wrote: Very little time has been spent on shim6 so far. Far more time before that was spent on multi6, which considered many different approaches to multi-homing. Spending time in and of itself has no value, you're entirely correct. Spending time t

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
What Tony said, especially about what happened to 8+8. A lot of the grounds for rejection were security, but there wasn't a single security person on the committee. In my opinion, most of the arguments just didn't hold up. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Tony Li
Stephen Sprunk wrote: > Who exactly has been trying to find scalable routing solutions? Well, for the last decade or so, there's been a small group of us who have been working towards a new routing architecture. Primary influences in my mind are Chiappa, O'Dell, Hain, Hinden, Nordmark, Atkin

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5-Mar-2006, at 17:03, Stephen Sprunk wrote: All this time, energy, and thought spent on shim6 would have been better spent on a scalable IDR solution. Luckily, we still have another decade or so to come up with something. So the answer to the lack of a routing solution to multi-homing

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Joe Abley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Was it not the lack of any scalable routing solution after many years of trying that led people to resort to endpoint mobility in end systems, à la shim6? Who exactly has been trying to find scalable routing solutions? IPv6 advocates have been pus

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-mrt-2006, at 17:37, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: The solution is routing based on geography: give every city of ~ 250k people a /32, and give people who multihome in or near that city a / 48 out of that /32. can the v6 table/space work with 6B /48's? It can if you distribute those 6G

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 5-Mar-2006, at 14:16, Owen DeLong wrote: It flies if you look at changing the routing paradigm instead of pushing routing decisions out of the routers and off to the hosts. Source Routing is a technology that most of the internet figured out is problematic years ago. Making source rou

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 c

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 20

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Owen DeLong
> You are absolutely right that having to upgrade not only all hosts in a > multihomed site, but also all the hosts they communicate with is an > important weakness of shim6. We looked very hard at ways to do this type > of multihoming that would work if only the hosts in the multihomed site >

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > Of course having a TCP session or the like change addresses halfway > through the session may throw stateful firewalls a bit. > I just love that shim6 basically == natv6... It WILL be implemented as such if available to folks in that manner. I d

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Edward B. DREGER
ME> Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2006 19:01:14 -0500 ME> From: Marshall Eubanks ME> So, if we gave every active ASN a contiguous IPv6 block, and moved ME> everyone over to IPv6, we would REDUCE the size of the routing table ME> by a factor of 8.28. That would gain several years of growth before ME> the routi

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
(oh how I'm going to regret jumping into this conversation at point 'here' not at the beginning :( ) On Sun, 5 Mar 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 5-mrt-2006, at 5:48, Roland Dobbins wrote: > > > This fundamental misconception of the requirements of large > > enterprise customers should b

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-mrt-2006, at 12:09, Ian Dickinson wrote: As an irrelevent aside, when someone comes up with a way to firewall/acl shim6, how much breaks? The idea is that there will be a shim6 header that can do two things: carry shim6 signalling and carry data packets with rewritten addresses aft

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-mrt-2006, at 5:48, Roland Dobbins wrote: This fundamental misconception of the requirements of large enterprise customers should be an indicator to proponents of shim6, among others, that they do not have a good grasp of the day-to-day operational and business realities faced by large

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 4-Mar-2006, at 23:48, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Joe Abley wrote: No support in big networks is required, beyond the presence of shim6 in server stacks. Why do you say this? Enterprises who multihome need their client machines (tens and hundreds of thousands o

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 4-mrt-2006, at 22:31, Matthew Petach wrote: And given that any network big enough to get their own PI /32 has *zero* incentive to install/support shim6 means that all those smaller networks that are pushed to install shim6 are going to see *zero* benefit when they try to reach the majo

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

2006-03-05 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
On 4 mar 2006, at 17.43, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: 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

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

2006-03-04 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Mark Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:50:55PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 3-mrt-2006, at 21:43, Brandon Ross wrote: > >What's worse is that unless people start changing their tune soon > >and make the ownership of IP space official, this will be a bl

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-04 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Mar 4, 2006, at 7:06 PM, Joe Abley wrote: No support in big networks is required, beyond the presence of shim6 in server stacks. Why do you say this? Enterprises who multihome need their client machines (tens and hundreds of thousands of them) to be able to take advantage of multiho

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

2006-03-04 Thread Mark Newton
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:50:55PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 3-mrt-2006, at 21:43, Brandon Ross wrote: > >What's worse is that unless people start changing their tune soon > >and make the ownership of IP space official, this will be a black > >market (like it is now, just mu

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-04 Thread Joe Abley
On 4-Mar-2006, at 16:31, Matthew Petach wrote: And given that any network big enough to get their own PI /32 has *zero* incentive to install/support shim6 means that all those smaller networks that are pushed to install shim6 are going to see *zero* benefit when they try to reach the maj

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-04 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; On Mar 4, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: On 3/4/06, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4-mrt-2006, at 14:07, Kevin Day wrote: >> We got lucky with CIDR because even though all default free >> routers had to be upgraded in a short time, it really wasn't that >>

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-04 Thread Matthew Petach
On 3/4/06, Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4-mrt-2006, at 14:07, Kevin Day wrote:>> We got lucky with CIDR because even though all default free>> routers had to be upgraded in a short time, it really wasn't that>> painful. [Because there was no need to renumber]> Isn't that an ex

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-04 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 4-mrt-2006, at 14:07, Kevin Day wrote: We got lucky with CIDR because even though all default free routers had to be upgraded in a short time, it really wasn't that painful. [Because there was no need to renumber] Isn't that an excellent argument against shim6 though? In IPv4, somet

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

2006-03-04 Thread Christian Kuhtz
On Mar 4, 2006, at 11:43 AM, Steven M. Bellovin 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 have 70% deployment and in 2012 we migh

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

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 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 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 e

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-04 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 4, 2006, at 2:21 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: ... which is what I expect to happen. A few folks will see it coming, design a fix, and everyone will deploy it overnight when they discover they have no other choice. Isn't that about what happened with CIDR, in a nutshell? We

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-04 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 4-mrt-2006, at 3:05, Stephen Sprunk wrote: The alternative, of course, is to wait for IDR to implode and let the finger-pointing begin. ... which is what I expect to happen. A few folks will see it coming, design a fix, and everyone will deploy it overnight when they discover they hav

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 ma

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Tony Li
>> The alternative, of course, is to wait for IDR to implode and let the >> finger-pointing begin. > > ... which is what I expect to happen. A few folks will see it coming, > design a fix, and everyone will deploy it overnight when they discover > they have no other choice. Isn't that about wha

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

2006-03-03 Thread Edward B. DREGER
SS> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 20:05:36 -0600 SS> From: Stephen Sprunk SS> > Unfortunately, that involves change from the status quo, and thus SS> > altruistic action. SS> SS> Only when self-interest and altruism are coincident is the latter SS> consistently achieved. Witness BCP38, spam/worm cleanu

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Tony Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm more confident that we'll find an answer to the IDR problem sooner than we'll convince people to act in the good of the community at their own expense. The solution to the IDR problem is to have a scalable routing architecture. Unfortunately, that

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 suck

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

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 t

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-03-03 Thread Tony Li
> I'm more confident that we'll find an answer > to the IDR problem sooner than we'll convince people to act in the good > of the community at their own expense. The solution to the IDR problem is to have a scalable routing architecture. Unfortunately, that involves change from the status quo,

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 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 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 owners

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

2006-03-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Man, I hope I never become as cynical as you. A pessimist is never disappointed. 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, m

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 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

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 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 actua

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 so

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 happeni

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 perh

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 IP

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 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

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 f

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

2006-03-02 Thread David Barak
--- Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider that the IETF > *could* conceivably > require every compliant v6 implementation to include > it. God Forbid. I somehow don't want my core routers deciding to speak shim6... David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.liste

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

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 enti

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 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 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 sim

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

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:44:01PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >And why would those people consider migrating to IPv6? > > Because they can't get IPv4 addresses or so many other people use > IPv6 (because _they_ can't get IPv4 addresses) that communicating > with them natively

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 righ

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