RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread Michel Py
Eliot, Eliot Lear wrote: What you say is possible, and has happened. But dumb things happen. Those dumb things could happen with non site-local addresses as well. More limited, that's the point. Not perfect, but better than unregulated anarchy. However, between a network design that does not

FW: [ga] ITU-T Workshops on E-Health, E-Government, and Next Generation Ne tworks

2003-03-28 Thread Gordon . Lennox
Particularly the third item... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 16:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ga] ITU-T Workshops on E-Health, E-Government, and Next Generation Ne tworks The ITU-T is organizing three open workshops on,

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread Tim Chown
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:48:44PM -0800, Christian Huitema wrote: My Windows-XP laptop currently has 14 IPv6 addresses, and 2 IPv4 addresses. The sky is not falling. Except of those 14 some seven(?) are RFC3041 addresses, which break a number of applications... so there are some clouds in

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread Matt Crawford
I suspect that most people there, who voted for the elimination ... At my first IETF meeting I received a T-Shirt, courtesy of Marshall Rose, I believe, that said We reject kings, presidents and voting... The real tragicomedy of this situation is that someone considered it fitting and proper

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread John Stracke
Margaret Wasserman wrote: As you know, I was in favor of setting aside a prefix (FECO::, in fact) for use as private address space (either on disconnected networks, or behind NATs), but the consensus of the folks in the IPv6 WG meeting was to deprecate that prefix altogether. There were several

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread John Kristoff
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:46:10PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: No, it's more than that. SLs impose burdens on hosts and apps. SLs break the separation of function between apps and the network that is inherent in the end-to-end principle. Is it safe to assume that the arguments (on either side)

Re: Doing real work

2003-03-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:47:45 PST, Michel Py said: two pieces of duct tape is really way superior to Cisco products. Yeah, right. If Cisco became market leader, it is because of their ability to design and manufacture products that actually work in enterprises and not because of questionable

Re: Doing real work

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Perlman
I guess I am missing something here about free markets and free societies. What is wrong with criticism? If it is valid, then the results are deserved, if not, then it will be ignored. The fact is that for many people the home-made router is superior for many reasons: price, control,

RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE:site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread David R. Oran
Did anybody consider just handing out a /48 (or a bit smaller) automagically with each DNS registration? --On Friday, March 28, 2003 10:36 AM -0800 Tony Hain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C Klensin wrote: Tony, I've been trying to get my mind around the various issues here, and I keep getting

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 14:00:31 EST, David R. Oran said: Did anybody consider just handing out a /48 (or a bit smaller) automagically with each DNS registration? Routing Table Bloat. If you can figure out how to do this in a CIDR aggregation context, or otherwise work around the table problem,

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE:site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Keith Moore
Did anybody consider just handing out a /48 (or a bit smaller) automagically with each DNS registration? Routing Table Bloat. If you can figure out how to do this in a CIDR aggregation context, or otherwise work around the table problem, the IETF and NANOG will quite certainly jointly

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
layers above it and a dangerous blow to the hour glass model. Looking at what is going on in the IETF, I think we are talking about first aid rather than trying to prevent the blow as such. That happened along time ago...:-( But yes, we need to protect the architectural model or discuss a new

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
Because such thing does not exist, it's called PI and is not available to IPv6 end-sites. And if it ever is, it will cost money or other annoyances to obtain. SLs won't come for free either. Architecture aside, I prefer people that use a service to pay for it rather than the community as such.

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
To echo the favorable review of Steve's presentation: It's at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/01aug/slides/plenary-1/index.html, and is well worth the few minutes it takes to read/re-read... Spencer --- Kurt Erik Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Deering made a wonderful presentation

Re: site local addresses

2003-03-28 Thread Ole Troan
Except of those 14 some seven(?) are RFC3041 addresses, which break a number of applications... so there are some clouds in the sky. 3041 may be next on the hit-list. Pretty soon it truly will be nothing but bigger addresses. lets shoot down those 128 bit addresses too, 64 must be enough.

RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Jeroen Massar
David R. Oran wrote: Did anybody consider just handing out a /48 (or a bit smaller) automagically with each DNS registration? I proposed a couple of times a /32 from which /48 can be requested for 'private' (never to be connected to the internet) purposes. I think some others have proposed a

RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Tony Hain
John C Klensin wrote: (ii) ISPs impose restrictions on their customers all the time and often even enforce them. Many of us consider some of these to be desirable (e.g., terms and conditions prohibiting spamming) and others less so (e.g., prohibitions against running server or peer-peer

RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem(was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to theInterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 28 March, 2003 15:50 -0800 Tony Hain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C Klensin wrote: (ii) ISPs impose restrictions on their customers all the time and often even enforce them. Many of us consider some of these to be desirable (e.g., terms and conditions prohibiting spamming) and

RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Tony Hain
John C Klensin wrote: ... but I am unconvinced that we should make special architectural provisions to make it easier to be in the ISP business while being clueless. Isn't that just what we did with MPLS?? ;) or does that just prove your point? ;)) My arguments are more about

RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Michel Py
John, John C Klensin wrote: We, or more specifically, the upstream ISP or an RIR, can tell the ISP that things will go badly for them if they permit un-routable addresses to leak into the public Internet. The only difference I can see between what I think is your SL address preference and

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem(was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to theInterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 28 March, 2003 14:54 -0500 Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did anybody consider just handing out a /48 (or a bit smaller) automagically with each DNS registration? Routing Table Bloat. If you can figure out how to do this in a CIDR aggregation context, or otherwise work

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Manning
John, mixed bag of nasties here. Routing, addressing, and (of course) the DNS. More fun than should be legal on a friday afternoon. Routing: there is a varient here. Think about routing table slots. If I get one, does it matter what the length of the prefix that I put in it? There are

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE:site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Keith Moore
Tony is right -- any registration process costs resources. agreed, though the cost of registering a domain name should serve as a useful upper bound. at least with address blocks you don't have to worry about I18N, trademark infringement, etc. But, if these addresses are assumed to be not

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Bill Manning
% David R. Oran wrote: % % Did anybody consider just handing out a /48 (or a bit smaller) % automagically with each DNS registration? % % I proposed a couple of times a /32 from which /48 can be requested % for 'private' (never to be connected to the internet) purposes. % I think some others

RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-28 Thread Jeroen Massar
Bill Manning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % David R. Oran wrote: % % Did anybody consider just handing out a /48 (or a bit smaller) % automagically with each DNS registration? % % I proposed a couple of times a /32 from which /48 can be requested % for 'private' (never to be

Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...

2003-03-28 Thread Keith Moore
What is not fixable is the fact that apps will break if you change an address out from under them. heck, TCP breaks if you change an address out from under it, so it's hardly surprising that apps using TCP break under similar conditions. the TCP/IP architecture simply was not designed to

Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Carlson
Keith; I disagree with your assessment. I will continue this technical discussion on the WG list after the minutes are published. Rich At 06:26 PM 3/27/03 -0500, Keith Moore wrote: I second Tony's key point. SL's are just 1 form of IPv6 addresses with a limited scope. As soon as

RE: Doing real work

2003-03-28 Thread Michel Py
Charlie, Charles E. Perkins wrote: What if the market were shaped by: - using questionable business practices to cripple/kill competitors? - predatory/stupid legislation? (e.g., efforts to outlaw French technology) - selective failure to enforce existing legislation? - powerful and

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread Keith Moore
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:29:22 -0600 John Kristoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 06:46:10PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: No, it's more than that. SLs impose burdens on hosts and apps. SLs break the separation of function between apps and the network that is inherent in the