Re: Last Call: draft-bonica-special-purpose-03.txt (Special-Purpose Address Registries) to Best Current Practice

2012-12-20 Thread Geoff Huston
solved the problem. Ron -Original Message- From: Geoff Huston [mailto:g...@apnic.net] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 6:25 PM To: Ronald Bonica Cc: Randy Bush; IETF Discussion Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-bonica-special-purpose-03.txt (Special

Re: Last Call: draft-bonica-special-purpose-03.txt (Special-Purpose Address Registries) to Best Current Practice

2012-12-03 Thread Geoff Huston
On 04/12/2012, at 9:30 AM, Ronald Bonica rbon...@juniper.net wrote: Geoff, Randy, Having reflected on your comments, I think that the two of you may be approaching the same problem from two directions. I will try my best to articulate the problem. When we agree that we have a common

Re: Last Call: draft-bonica-special-purpose-03.txt (Special-Purpose Address Registries) to Best Current Practice

2012-11-29 Thread Geoff Huston
On 30/11/2012, at 7:55 AM, The IESG iesg-secret...@ietf.org wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Special-Purpose Address Registries' draft-bonica-special-purpose-03.txt as Best Current Practice The IESG plans to make

Re: When to adopt a draft as a WG doc (was RE: IETF work is done on the mailing lists)

2012-11-29 Thread Geoff Huston
On 30/11/2012, at 8:14 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: I'll note that it seems possible that overspecifying process could potentially cause more protests rather than fewer. or good folk just walking away. there is a reason we are at the ietf and not the itu. rule obsessed and process

Re: Last Call: draft-bonica-special-purpose-03.txt (Special-Purpose Address Registries) to Best Current Practice

2012-11-29 Thread Geoff Huston
On 30/11/2012, at 9:31 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: hi geoff, i get your point. but it sure is convenient to find everything in one place. can your issues be addressed by adding an attribute(s) to the entries? Convenience vs maning a semantic distinction overt. Yes, it is

Re: When to adopt a draft as a WG doc (was RE: IETF work is done on the mailing lists)

2012-11-28 Thread Geoff Huston
On 29/11/2012, at 2:36 AM, George, Wes wesley.geo...@twcable.com wrote: From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John Leslie I'm increasingly seeing a paradigm where the review happens _before_ adoption as a WG draft. After adoption, there's a great lull

Re: IETF work is done on the mailing lists

2012-11-28 Thread Geoff Huston
On 29/11/2012, at 3:32 AM, Eliot Lear l...@cisco.com wrote: On 11/28/12 12:57 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I'm increasingly seeing a paradigm where the review happens _before_ adoption as a WG draft. and one consequence is that the design gets done outside of the ietf process. But this

Re: IETF work is done on the mailing lists

2012-11-27 Thread Geoff Huston
On 28/11/2012, at 5:00 AM, Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: That attendance showed me that most of the IETF meeting was a waste of time, that it was e-mail that was the main vehicle for work, and I think

Re: [lisp] Last Call: draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC

2012-11-21 Thread Geoff Huston
, at 6:09 AM, Robert Elz k...@munnari.oz.au wrote: Date:Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:16:58 +1100 From:Geoff Huston g...@apnic.net Message-ID: 99b9866c-41d6-4784-aa69-cd25e5910...@apnic.net I have no idea whether the allocation requested is reasonable or not, I haven't read

Re: [lisp] Last Call: draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC

2012-11-20 Thread Geoff Huston
base of deployment of LISP in the Internet's routing environment. We do not support the publication of this draft as an Informational RFC. regards, John Curran, Paul Wilson, and Geoff Huston

Re: [lisp] Last Call: draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC

2012-11-17 Thread Geoff Huston
can always deploy your own PITRs and filter the more-specifics at your border. That might keep everyone happy. What do you think? Thanks, Sander ___ lisp mailing list l...@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp -- Geoff Huston

Re: [lisp] Last Call: draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC

2012-11-15 Thread Geoff Huston
In Section 6: It is suggested to IANA to temporarily avoid allocating any other address block the same /12 prefix the EID /16 prefix belongs to. This is to accommodate future requests of EID space without fragmenting the EID addressing space. Shouldn't that be under IANA

Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic (yet again)

2011-07-26 Thread Geoff Huston
I'm in favor of the proposed action and the clarification of HISTORIC as proposed in the new section. Geoff On 26/07/2011, at 12:30 AM, Ronald Bonica wrote: Folks, After some discussion, the IESG is attempting to determine whether there is IETF consensus to do the following: - add a

Re: [SPAM] Re: Last Call: draft-iana-ipv4-examples (IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation) to Informational RFC

2009-08-29 Thread Geoff Huston
On 29/08/2009, at 2:50 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: I'd like to push back a little on this. My personal preference is a specification style which makes everything very explicit. If a block has been used for examples, I think we owe it to the reader to say what its fate was. I do agree though

Re: Last Call: draft-iana-ipv4-examples (IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation) to Informational RFC

2009-08-23 Thread Geoff Huston
On 24/08/2009, at 6:38 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Aug 23, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: Further discussion would be useful on one issue that was brought to our attention. The issue is the status of 128.66.0.0/16. This block, TEST-B, has been used for example purposes. There

Re: Status of the 16-bit AS Number space

2009-04-23 Thread Geoff Huston
lifetime of this number pool. The second, http://www.potaroo.net/tools/asn32/ looks at the entirety of the 32 bit AS number pool. regards, Geoff Huston On 24/04/2009, at 1:13 AM, Russ Housley wrote: I thought that the whole community would like to be aware of this status. Russ From

Re: Comment on draft-iab-ipv6-nat-00

2009-03-21 Thread Geoff Huston
On 21/03/2009, at 3:18 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 19 mrt 2009, at 7:43, Lixia Zhan Are we ready to adopt the policy that forbids IPv6 NAT traversal mechanisms? no. This industry needs standards, and relies on standards. For many years the Internet Engineering Task Force has

Re: IPv6 traffic stats

2008-11-12 Thread Geoff Huston
I've been looking at this as well and reported on the relative amount of IPv6 traffic over the past 4 years at the most recent NANOG (http://www.potaroo.net/presentations/2008-10-13-ipv6-deployment.pdf ) in recent times I am also seeing 0.5% of hosts preferring to use IPv6 to access a

Re: About IETF communication skills

2008-08-01 Thread Geoff Huston
Like Steve Bellovin, I have always believed that I've been treated accurately and fairly and I really don't understand what this thread is all about. Yes, I stand by what I said in that article. If you disagree with my perspective on this topic, then perhaps you may want to followup with me

Re: amsl.com certificate?

2008-02-20 Thread Geoff Huston
The default setting in Firefox (and possibly safari) is to use OCSP for validation of certificates where OCSP is referenced. The *.ietf.org certificate has as part of the Authority Information Field the value; OCSP: URI: http://ocsp.starfieldtech.com This url is unreachable from many non-US

Re: Last Call: draft-weiler-dnssec-dlv-iana (DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) IANA Registry) to Informational RFC

2007-08-23 Thread Geoff Huston
to the response to the IESG that: 1. Should this document be published? No - I do not see adequate rational for this instruction to IANA. 2. If so... N/A regards, Geoff Huston ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman

Re: Last Call: draft-weiler-dnssec-dlv-iana (DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV) IANA Registry) to Informational RFC

2007-08-23 Thread Geoff Huston
- in the absence of full signing of the DNS from the root down, just how many DLV spots must a resolver look in? It seems that proliferation of DLV lookup points is no better (and arguably much worse) than the original problem of piecemeal DNSSEC deployment - that of key hunting.

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

2007-08-12 Thread Geoff Huston
Keith Moore wrote: One thing I'm pretty sure of is that allocating this space for another RFC1918-like private network block isn't going to solve the collision problem. I could see more utility in letting this be space for router use only, say to allow cable ISPs to assign such addresses to

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

2007-08-08 Thread Geoff Huston
As for the address issue, I have to agree with PHB here as well: If these addresses are usable in a reasonable time frame then we shouldn't be quick to give them up for private use and if they are unusable in a reasonable time frame it really doesn't matter what we do with them. So I guess the

Re: what's up with the management

2007-08-06 Thread Geoff Huston
Perhaps requesting volunteers to help would reduce the work load? The IAB did that. I *am* the volunteer :-) I expect my www.iab.org backlog to be cleared before the end of this week. I trust that these belated material include the ietf 69 proceedings Thursday evening plenary? Seems to

Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

2006-11-29 Thread Geoff Huston
But, with the expanded space, there is an issue of how to transition to the larger numbers. This is a software problem as much as anything. Until all software understands the bigger numbers, people will want to continue using the 16-bit ones. I had a shot at documenting this in the form of

Re: Last Call: 'DNSSEC Lookaside Validation (DLV)' to Informational RFC (draft-weiler-dnssec-dlv)

2006-10-29 Thread Geoff Huston
At 03:48 AM 28/10/2006, Bernard Aboba wrote: Joe Abley said: Apologies to all concerned if I'm rudely pointing out the elephant in the living room. This is one of two separate specifications for DLV. The document at http://www.isc.org/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2006-1.txt describes an approach called

Re: [Int-area] Re: Last Call: 'An IPv6 Prefix for Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers (ORCHID)' to Experimental RFC (draft-laganier-ipv6-khi)

2006-10-29 Thread Geoff Huston
allocation is sufficiently small so as to present no particular concern one way or another. regards, Geoff Huston ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-18 Thread Geoff Huston
At 06:31 AM 19/07/2006, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 8:27 PM +0200 7/18/06, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Should we require that the current availability through rsync and ftp is continued? Maybe I'm being a bit pedantic here, but there is no RFC (or even Internet Draft) describing rsync. Of course,

Re: Last Call: 'Considerations on the IPv6 Host density Metric' to Informational RFC (draft-huston-hd-metric)

2006-06-04 Thread Geoff Huston
At 02:52 PM 4/06/2006, Steven Blake wrote: Your representation as to the document's conclusions is simply not supported by the document itself. Geoff, I don't understand why you think my paraphrase of your document's conclusions (including the quoted text above) is unfair or inaccurate. I

Re: Last Call: 'Considerations on the IPv6 Host density Metric' to Informational RFC (draft-huston-hd-metric)

2006-06-03 Thread Geoff Huston
At 01:33 PM 3/06/2006, Steven Blake wrote: I am concerned about the conclusion reached in this document (that HD ratios 0.8 and closer to 0.94 should be considered when making address allocations to larger providers). This is a topic of interest both to the IETF and to regional addressing

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Geoff Huston
believe, a central matter in any version of an RFC Editor Charter. regards, Geoff At 02:00 AM 31/05/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Look at draft-ietf-newtrk-docid-00.txt This isn't really a chartering issue, IMHO. Brian Stewart Bryant wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/26/06, Geoff

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-10 Thread Geoff Huston
The real issue is that Geoff's linear projections against the current .75 /8's per month going out from the RIRs to hit a 2012 date don't match the historical growth. I suppose I should respond here, particularly as the quote about using linear models is not a correct one. The projection

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread Geoff Huston
Brian, Actually the document I referenced is also around 9 years old - so even then we were having a Fine Debate about settlement systems in this industry. The introduction of Content into this debate has also been interesting with the earliest intersection of the two groups (ISPs and content

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread Geoff Huston
To quote from the Carpenter draft:... One approach to resolving the current crisis in Internet performance is to institute an efficient system of inter-carrier settlements. Progress is often hard when you are heading in off in the weeds. Try

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Huston
in a specified set of document formats and fold the publication and repository management tasks into the IETF Secretariat function. regards, Geoff Huston ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: 'Cryptographically Generated Addresses (CGA) Extension Field Format' to Proposed Standard

2006-02-01 Thread Geoff Huston
charter. Following consultation with the Internet Area ADs, this document is being progressed as an individual submission to the IESG. regards, Geoff Huston (SHIM6 co-chair) ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman

Re: Last Call: 'Experimental Values In IPv4, IPv6, ICMPv4, ICMPv6, UDP and TCP Headers' to Proposed Standard

2006-02-01 Thread Geoff Huston
-specials-01.txt (currently with David Kessens in AD review) advocates formalizing this with the creation of an IANA IPv6 special use registry. A further revision of the document appears to be appropriate in this case to correct what appears to be a factual error here. regards, Geoff Huston

Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-29 Thread Geoff Huston
(1) yes, (2) yes, (3) XML primary, and (4) see (3). (for what its worth) At 07:00 AM 29/11/2005, Bob Braden wrote: * * * Hence the desire to have the RFC Editor use xml2rfc, rather than nroff. * Dave, I am afraid you are injecting confusion. Use nroff for what? The RFC Editor

RE: Printing IDs and RFCs (Was: Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-29 Thread Geoff Huston
At 02:17 AM 30/11/2005, Yaakov Stein wrote: Henrik Anyway, I've added text-to-pdf conversion for all RFCs and IDs under the URL http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/, so you can get pdf- conversions of our various documents. snip Comments welcome. Well, I have only one comment. This is great! A

Re: Printing IDs and RFCs (Was: Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-29 Thread Geoff Huston
At 09:00 AM 30/11/2005, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Hi Geoff, on 2005-11-29 20:38 Geoff Huston said the following: At 02:17 AM 30/11/2005, Yaakov Stein wrote: [...] It would be great if I could write http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-pwe3-satop true. You mean something like http://draft

Re: Update: IETF Trust Consensus Call

2005-11-27 Thread Geoff Huston
* I infer that the IAOC has concluded that the present draft agreement is about as good as we are going to get, at least without abandoning this path, discarding the work of the last nine or ten months, and trying something else entirely. The inference

Re: Update: IETF Trust Consensus Call

2005-11-24 Thread Geoff Huston
respond affirmatively to this Consensus Call on the IETF on the document as it currently stands. regards, Geoff Huston At 09:38 AM 24/11/2005, Leslie Daigle wrote: Forwarded on behalf of Lucy. Leslie. Original Message Subject: Update: IETF Trust Consensus Call Date: Wed

Re: Audio streaming and slides suggestion

2005-11-15 Thread Geoff Huston
At 01:50 PM 12/11/2005, John wrote: To avoid extra overload from the co-chairs during the session, and if we want to make it more strict, if any of the presenters is not done with his/her slides, he will not be able to talk. more strict sorry, but that's just not on - if all we are these

Re: Complaining about ADs to Nomcom (Re: Voting (again))

2005-05-08 Thread Geoff Huston
And there is some risk (small, I think) of people pushing others to endorse them. This would seem easier with a public list, because the nomcom is not left wondering why they got the supportive email. A risk not without quite extensive precedent over the years, and the concept of overt

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Geoff Huston
I believe that the concept that meeting registration fees must cover all IETF suport costs is, a best, an historical statement (and not even correct in that context). With the changes with the IASA activity I believe we have the opportunity to get this right, rather than muddling around

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Geoff Huston
So instead of: The chair of the IAOC may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the voting members of the IAOC, or as a result of his or her departure from the IAOC. we could say If the chair leaves the IAOC, or if two thirds of the voting IAOC members vote

RE: Assuring ISOC commitment to AdminRest

2004-12-13 Thread Geoff Huston
Fred, I would certainly add my voice in support of the Internet Society adopting a specific resolution of adoption of this document (the IASA BCP, referenced, as Scott mentions, by its RFC number). This is clear demonstration of a level of organizational commitment that endures beyond the

RE: Assuring ISOC commitment to AdminRest

2004-12-13 Thread Geoff Huston
to the IETF process signing off on this document for publication as a BCP. Regards, Geoff At 02:50 PM 14/12/2004, Fred Baker wrote: At 12:22 PM 12/14/04 +1100, Geoff Huston wrote: I would certainly add my voice in support of the Internet Society adopting a specific resolution of adoption

Re: iasa-bcp-01 - Open Issues - Separate bank accounts

2004-12-08 Thread Geoff Huston
I think you are wanting to say that donation of funds to the IETF be placed under the exclusive control of the IETF support program within ISOC. This phrasing is slightly stronger than the irrevocable commitment phrase, but does fall just short of explicitly stating 'distinct fund account held

Re: Adminrest: IASA BCP: Separability

2004-12-02 Thread Geoff Huston
At 10:54 AM 2/12/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1 dec 2004, at 22.35, Sam Hartman wrote: I had sort of assumed this BCP would be the MOU to the extent that one existed. I think that there has to be an equivalent document on the ISOC side as indicated by Geoff, i.e. a document indicating

Re: Adminrest: IASA BCP: Separability

2004-12-01 Thread Geoff Huston
At 04:34 AM 2/12/2004, Margaret Wasserman wrote: At 3:41 PM +0100 12/1/04, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Yes, I've always assumed there will be an MOU between IETF and ISOC, both to recognize the BCP when we have it, and to make explicit some of these boundary conditions. This is interesting, because I

Re: AdminRest: IASA BCP: do we need dedicated IASA (bank) accounts

2004-11-28 Thread Geoff Huston
At 12:15 AM 27/11/2004, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: In revision draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-00.txt we have text in sections 5 through 5.4 about IASA funding and where the money needs to be kept. Specifically, the current text suggests that there is/are one or more IASA specific bank accounts. Namely: -

Re: IASA BCP Section 5.3

2004-11-17 Thread Geoff Huston
At 11:04 PM 17/11/2004, Margaret Wasserman wrote: I have some comments on Section 5.3 of the IASA BCP, Other ISOC Support. The first paragraph of this section says: Other ISOC support shall be based on the budget process as specified in Section 6. ISOC will deposit the yearly amount (as

Re: draft-farrel-rtg-morality-requirements-00.txt

2004-11-17 Thread Geoff Huston
At 08:15 PM 17/11/2004, Olaf M. Kolkman wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 15:57:37 -0800 Bob Hinden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We should be proactive and create a morality area in the IETF. The morality ADs can review and vote Discuss if the Morality Considerations section in drafts being reviewed by

RE: AdminRest: IASA BCP: Should IAB chair be a voting member of IAOC

2004-11-16 Thread Geoff Huston
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Silverman Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 9:43 AM To: Geoff Huston; Wijnen, Bert (Bert); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: AdminRest: IASA BCP: Should IAB chair be a voting member of IAOC It would seem to me that being a non-voting member is being a second

Re: AdminRest: IASA BCP: Should IAB chair be a voting member of IAOC

2004-11-15 Thread Geoff Huston
Chair should be a liaison or a full member of the IAOC. There are multiple trade-offs here, and this should be discussed by the community.] During the Plenary last wednesday there were suggestions/proposals to make IAB chair a voting member. That makes a lot of sense to me Geoff Huston

IPv4 consumption statistics and extrapolations

2004-11-06 Thread Geoff Huston
I would like to correct a few numbers in Tony's comments based on my work in this area that Tony has referred to. The least squares best fit of advertised address space in the IPv4 domain over the past 5 years is a consumption rate of 4 /8s per year, slightly less than half of Tony's number

Re: On the difference between scenarios A and B in Carl's report

2004-09-07 Thread Geoff Huston
At 7:57 PM +0200 9/6/04, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: It seems to me that we are rapidly converging on one point of total IETF consensus: Putting the IETF administrative function under ISOC requires a documented IETF-ISOC agreement (call it an MoU, a contract or something else - it IS a

Re: [Ietf] 240.0.0.0/4

2004-04-20 Thread Geoff Huston
I believe we are in complete agreement when you say: My comfort level would be much higher if by the time that we need the extra address space, we have a fighting chance of actually being able to use it. So I think it would be a good idea to make it very clear that implementations must, in the

Re: Processing of Expired Internet-Drafts

2004-01-15 Thread Geoff Huston
A good and simple way to do this would be to create a file that matches the draft filename without the version number (would this be that tombstone thingy you guys keep talking about?) and say something like version 34 was submitted 2003-04-05 or version 00 was deleted 1970-01-01 You can

Call for Nominations: IETF-Nominated ISOC Trustee

2004-01-02 Thread Geoff Huston
Baker 2002 - 2005 Margaret Wasserman 2003 - 2006 (*) Current term expires May 2004 Thanks, Geoff Huston Executive Director, IAB

Re: Last Call: Instructions to Request for Comments (RFC) Authors to BCP

2003-03-05 Thread Geoff Huston
as informative references. I refer to draft-iab-sec-cons-03.txt and RFC 2434. Consideration should be given to publishing the draft-iab-sec-cons document concurrently with this document. thanks, Geoff Huston

Re: Comments and alternatives to draftt-huston-ietf-pact-00 ( also long)

2002-11-21 Thread Geoff Huston
as the listed authors of the pact draft. As I have already taken up probably too much reader's time and patience in this response, I trust you will excuse me if I do not continue here with any specific comments on your suggestions. kind regards, Geoff Huston

Re: utility of dynamic DNS

2002-03-01 Thread Geoff Huston
The essence of the architecture of mobility is to allow the identity of the mobile device to remain constant while allowing the identity of the location of the device within the network to vary The dynamic DNS approach attempts to bind the domain name as the device's persistent identity and

Re: Why is IPv6 a must?

2001-11-12 Thread Geoff Huston
Quite simply, a bunch of us *are* searching for a paradigm shift. Geoff's good work in this area reveals the complexity of the whys and wherefores of the routing system. Given that 8+8 was a serious consideration (and to some deserves some amount of revisiting -- at least as a starting

Re: IETF logistics

2000-12-20 Thread Geoff Huston
If people want tutorials, then I think we should have them Did you see the Security Tutorial in the IETF 49 Agenda that was scheduled on Sunday? I'm unsure as to the number of folk who attended or their impressions of what they got out of it, or what the IETF fgot out of it, as I have not

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-18 Thread Geoff Huston
At 12/18/00 01:07 PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: The flaw in your argument is that you're assuming that the only reason to do NAT is because of the address space problem. My concern is that it may turn out that some transport/routing people may conclude that we may also need to do NAT to

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-18 Thread Geoff Huston
At 12/18/00 01:07 PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: The flaw in your argument is that you're assuming that the only reason to do NAT is because of the address space problem. My concern is that it may turn out that some transport/routing people may conclude that we may also need to do NAT to

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-16 Thread Geoff Huston
At 12/16/00 10:02 PM -0500, J. Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Geoff Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are strong indications that NAT is one factor behind this part of the BGP table. I'm afraid I'm missing the logic here. As you point out below, NAT's may have caused people to use

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Geoff Huston
If it isn't an address issue, is it a routing issue? Is it that the routing tables/protocols/hardware can't handle the large number of routes? Are ISPs refusing to carry reasonable routes? Seems to me if the entire address space was broken up into subnets of 4096, there would be about 1

Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

2000-08-11 Thread Geoff Huston
the other hand even doing nothing will be a problem - we appear to have resumed exponential growth of the routing system again, presumably as multi-homing at the edges starts to be more and more common. Geoff Huston