Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >John Curran wrote: >> Steve - >> >> For the first end site that has to connect via IPv6, >> it will be very bad if there is not a base of IPv6 >> web/email sites already in place. > >As the network administrator for a Web hosting company, I'

Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Nicolás Antoniello
t; steve. >> joelja >> steve. >> steve. >> So, go ahead and continue talking about migration while ignoring the very policies within which that is permitted to take place and don't let me interrupt that ranting. joelja >> steve. >> steve. >> joelja &g

Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Joel Jaeggli
So, go ahead and continue talking about migration while > ignoring the very policies within which that is permitted to take place and > don't let me interrupt that ranting. > steve. >> steve. >> > steve. >> steve. >> Best Regards, > steve. >>

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-29 Thread David Conrad
Christian, On Jun 29, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Christian Kuhtz wrote: Until there's a practical solution for multihoming, this whole discussion is pretty pointless The fact that a practical multihoming solution for IPv6 does not exist doesn't mean that the IPv4 free pool will not be exhausted.

Re: v6 multihoming (Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6)

2007-06-29 Thread Stephen Wilcox
;> From: Stephen Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > steve. >> > steve. >> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:55:06 > steve. >> To:Christian Kuhtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > steve. >> Cc:Andy Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > Dona

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Comcasts of this world burn addresses by the millions. If they can't have new ones for (almost) free, they'll have to stick multiple customers behind a single IPv4 address. If you have to share your IP address with several of your ne

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Comcasts of this world burn addresses by the millions. If they can't have new ones for (almost) free, they'll have to stick multiple customers behind a single IPv4 address. If you have to share your IP address with several of your ne

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> How about this: when the OS only has an IPv6 address, and an application wants to talk to an IPv4-only destination, automatically proxy the TCP session through an HTTPS proxy. This catches anything that uses TCP and doesn't need to know i

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-jun-2007, at 18:51, John Curran wrote: If you have a plan for continued operation of the Internet during IPv4 depletion, please write it up as an RFC. Our present Internet routing scheme is predominantly working based on hierarchical routing but I'm certain there are alter

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-jun-2007, at 19:56, Dave Israel wrote: You don't believe the killer app will be "sorry, no more IP addresses?" I bet it won't. There are too many people willing to patch what we have rather than toss it out and start over. As the IP addresses run ever lower, ISPs will probably pa

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-jun-2007, at 21:55, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: More precisely, I don't see any reason why it would take significantly less. In fact, it can't take much less, no matter what. Figure two years for the basic design, 3-5 years for the IETF (or whomever) to engineer all the pieces (it's more

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:46:53 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:08:52 PDT, Bora Akyol said: > > At a very low, hardware centric level, IPv6 would be a lot easier to > > implement if > > > > 1) The addresses were 64 bits instead of 128 bits. > > 2) The extension headers archi

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Bora Akyol
The length of the address (64 vs 128) is not the hard part. Just increases the cost and the complexity of the ASIC ;-) The extension headers become a real problem when L4 filtering is desired. Bora On 6/28/07 2:46 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:0

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:08:52 PDT, Bora Akyol said: > At a very low, hardware centric level, IPv6 would be a lot easier to > implement if > > 1) The addresses were 64 bits instead of 128 bits. > 2) The extension headers architecture was completely revamped to be more > hardware friendly. Wow, a b

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Bora Akyol
> > IPv6 isn't what I wanted it to be (and I was on the IPng directorate). > That said, it's what we have, and I think we *really* need something > with a lot more address space. > At a very low, hardware centric level, IPv6 would be a lot easier to implement if 1) The addresses were 64 bit

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:23:30 -0700 brett watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 28, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > > Whatever -- it > > exists as a reasonably stable design; starting over would cost us 15 > > more years that we just don't have.) > > Are you saying we

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Randy Bush
>> Whatever -- it exists as a reasonably stable design; starting over >> would cost us 15 more years that we just don't have.) > Are you saying we (collectively) would take yet *another* 15 years to > come up with another and/or better design? i have always wanted to see third system syndrome ra

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread brett watson
On Jun 28, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Whatever -- it exists as a reasonably stable design; starting over would cost us 15 more years that we just don't have.) Are you saying we (collectively) would take yet *another* 15 years to come up with another and/or better design?

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Lynda True (aka Etaoin Shrdlu)
Kevin Oberman wrote: From: Stephen Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I wasnt specifically thinking of reclamation of space, I was noting a couple of things: - that less than 50% of the v4 space is currently routed. scarcity will presumably cause these non-routed blocks to be: :- used and route

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Deepak Jain
1. IPv4 address space is a scarce resource and it will soon be exhausted. 2. It hasn't run out already due to various efficiency improvements. 3. These are themselves limited. 4. IPv6, though, will provide abundant address space. 5. But there's no incentive to change until enough others do s

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:27:15 -0400 John Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 10:16 AM -0700 6/28/07, Randy Bush wrote: > > > Interoperability is achieved by having public facing > >> servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6. > > > >that may be what it looks like from the view of an addres

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Wilcox
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:27:30PM -0400, Aaron Daubman wrote: > > On 6/28/07, chuck goolsbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You left out: The "killer-app." > >Compelling content *only* available via the alternative technology. > >The IPv-ONLY google/porn/web/tube/iphone/whatever that enough peop

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Donald Stahl
You can, and this will work for a while. When it stops working (which is not at all predictable) you're going to need a fairly sizable IPv6 Internet so that you can continue to connect new customers up, and unfortunately, that means we need to start getting folks moving ahead of time since we d

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28-Jun-2007, at 13:16, Randy Bush wrote: Interoperability is achieved by having public facing servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6. that may be what it looks like from the view of an address allocator. but if you actually have to deliver data from servers you need a path where dat

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:27:30 EDT, Aaron Daubman said: > I wonder what it would take to convince a major online retailer > (Amazon?), an auction site (eBay?) or even transaction handlers > (google checkout, paypal?) to put up v6 portals that offered > across-the-board (or even select) discounts to

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Dave Israel
Adrian Chadd wrote: You don't believe the killer app will be "sorry, no more IP addresses?" I bet it won't. There are too many people willing to patch what we have rather than toss it out and start over. As the IP addresses run ever lower, ISPs will probably patrol usage even more and r

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread chuck goolsbee
You don't believe the killer app will be "sorry, no more IP addresses?" Nope. Not at all. --chuck

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Kevin Oberman wrote: > While these are wasted, getting them back is essentially impossible. The term wasted is being used way to freely on this list. If by waste you mean: To use, consume, spend, or expend thoughtlessly or carelessly. Then I have to disagree. If you mean they (unannounced

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Randy Bush
> At 10:16 AM -0700 6/28/07, Randy Bush wrote: >>> Interoperability is achieved by having public facing >>> servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6. >> that may be what it looks like from the view of an address allocator. >> >> but if you actually have to deliver data from servers you need a p

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Aaron Daubman
Chuck et. al; On 6/28/07, chuck goolsbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You left out: The "killer-app." Compelling content *only* available via the alternative technology. The IPv-ONLY google/porn/web/tube/iphone/whatever that enough people want/desire/need/are-willing-to-pay-for to move the netwo

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread John Curran
At 10:16 AM -0700 6/28/07, Randy Bush wrote: > > Interoperability is achieved by having public facing >> servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6. > >that may be what it looks like from the view of an address allocator. > >but if you actually have to deliver data from servers you need a path >w

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Edward Lewis
At 17:42 +0100 6/28/07, Stephen Wilcox wrote: - that less than 50% of the v4 space is currently routed. scarcity will presumably cause these non-routed blocks to be: :- used and routes :- reclaimed and reassigned :- sold on There's also the possibility: :- continued to be used as they a

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread John Curran
At 6:09 PM +0100 6/28/07, Stephen Wilcox wrote: >Hi John, > I am not offering an elegant technical solution that would be worthy of an > RFC number! :) But I am saying that the Internet of today will evolve > organically and that there are a number of ways you can get by with what we > have for

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007, chuck goolsbee wrote: > > >6. Economists call this a collective action problem. Traditional > >solutions include legislation, market leadership, and agreements among > >small actors to achieve such leadership. > > You left out: The "killer-app." > > Compelling content *on

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Randy Bush
> Interoperability is achieved by having public facing > servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6. that may be what it looks like from the view of an address allocator. but if you actually have to deliver data from servers you need a path where data from/in both protocols is supported on ever

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread John Curran
At 9:59 AM -0700 6/28/07, Randy Bush wrote: > >If you have a plan for continued operation of the Internet >>during IPv4 depletion, please write it up as an RFC. > >if you have a simple and usable plan for ipv6 transition, please write >it up in any readable form! > >randy Will do, /John

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:42:47 +0100 > From: Stephen Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Hi John, > I wasnt specifically thinking of reclamation of space, I was noting a > couple of things: > > - that less than 50% of the v4 space is currently routed. scarcity will

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread chuck goolsbee
6. Economists call this a collective action problem. Traditional solutions include legislation, market leadership, and agreements among small actors to achieve such leadership. You left out: The "killer-app." Compelling content *only* available via the alternative technology. The IPv-ONLY g