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

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-mrt-2006, at 22:27, Owen DeLong wrote: One thing is very certain: today, a lot of people who have their own PI or even PA block with IPv4, don't qualify for one with IPv6. While it's certainly possible that the rules will be changed such that more people can get an IPv6 PI or PA bl

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

2006-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
>> The other PI assignment policies that have been proposed either >> require that you have a /19 already in IPv4 (lots of hosting >> companies don't have anything this size), or have tens/hundreds of >> thousands of devices. > > It has also been suggested that the simple presence of > multiho

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

2006-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
Please consider also 2005-1 at http://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2005_1.html Owen pgpg8cW8ERncu.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2006-03-02 Thread Owen DeLong
--On March 2, 2006 3:15:59 PM +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2-mrt-2006, at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Clearly, it would be extremely unwise for an ISP or >> an enterprise to rely on shim6 for multihoming. Fortunately >> they won't have to do this becaus

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

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-mrt-2006, at 17:05, [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

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

2006-03-02 Thread Daniel Golding
On 3/2/06 7:57 AM, "Edward B. DREGER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:07:33 + >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [ snip ] > >> Is there something inherently wrong with independent >> organizations deciding where to send their packets? > > 1. Many a transit seems to th

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

2006-03-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
> If all of your hosting is "shared", the servers are your > responsibility, and you're not providing connectivity to anyone but > yourself. I don't think you qualify at all at this point. > > If you're selling dedicated servers or colo space, it's a little > better, but I still don't think yo

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

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-mrt-2006, at 16:20, Mark Newton wrote: Now, some may take that as a sign the IETF needs to figure out how to handle 10^6 BGP prefixes... I'm not sure we'll be there for a few years with IPv6, but sooner or later we will, and someone needs to figure out what the Internet is going to look l

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

2006-03-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
> So learn to love shim6 or help create something better. Complaining > isn't going to solve anything. I am helping to create something better by supporting the IPv6 PI address policy on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go here http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html to subscribe or to read the archives.

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

2006-03-02 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:51:43PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >Now, some may take that as a sign the IETF needs to figure out how > >to handle 10^6 BGP prefixes... I'm not sure we'll be there for a > >few years with IPv6, but sooner or later we will, and someone needs > >to f

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

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
Man, I hope I never become as cynical as you. 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, malware, etc. to handle multihoming decisions? They trust those hosts to do congestion c

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

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 2, 2006, at 7:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, it would be extremely unwise for an ISP or an enterprise to rely on shim6 for multihoming. Fortunately they won't have to do this because the BGP multihoming option will be available. Are you *sure* BGP multihoming will be avai

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

2006-03-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-mrt-2006, at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clearly, it would be extremely unwise for an ISP or an enterprise to rely on shim6 for multihoming. Fortunately they won't have to do this because the BGP multihoming option will be available. I guess you have a better crystal ball than I do.

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

2006-03-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
> Putting the routing decisions in the hands of the servers(that we do > not control) requires that we somehow impart this routing policy on > our customers, make them keep it up to date when we change things, > and somehow enforce that they don't break the policy. > The same problems exist, o

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

2006-03-02 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 2, 2006, at 4:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ome. When I see comments like this I wonder whether people understand what shim6 is all about. First of all, these aren't YOUR hosts. They belong to somebody else. If you are an access provider then these hosts belong to a customer that is

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

2006-03-02 Thread Edward B. DREGER
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:07:33 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ snip ] Is there something inherently wrong with independent organizations deciding where to send their packets? 1. Many a transit seems to think so. 2. Is there an inherent need? 3. Is this DPA+sourceroute cocktail the best met

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

2006-03-02 Thread David Barak
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Resounding YES - I specifically DON'T want > end-hosts > > to be able to make these decisions, but need to be > > able to multihome. > > When I see comments like this I wonder whether > people > understand what shim6 is all about. First of all, > these > aren't

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

2006-03-02 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Joe Abley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:55, David Barak wrote: It isn't fearing change to ask the question "it's not broken today, why should I fix it?" What's broken today is that there's no mechanism available for people who don't qualify for v6 PI space to multi-h

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

2006-03-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
> > The scope of > > that policy mediation function depends strongly on > > people like you > > saying "at a high level, this is the kind of > > decision I am not happy > > with the hosts making". > > Resounding YES - I specifically DON'T want end-hosts > to be able to make these decisions, b

A shim6 summary paper [Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)]

2006-03-01 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Lucy E. Lynch wrote: point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed enterprise customer o a small to medium multi-homed tier-n isp never under-estimate the range and productivity of Pekka! ht

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Day
For those watching and grumbling, I'll move the discussion to a shim6 mailing list, or in private if anyone wants to continue beyond this. Just make sure you cc: me if you move the discussion somewhere else. On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 1-Mar-2006, at 13:32, Kevin Da

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

2006-03-01 Thread Edward B. DREGER
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 23:46:22 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] when/if a shim6 proof of concept is built, Let's look at IPv4 options: 0x83 0x04 0x04 0x?? 0x?? 0x?? 0x?? usually doesn't make it very far. Try % traceroute -n -g ip.of.some.router and.of.the.destination from

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 18:29, Randy Bush wrote: You will note I have glossed over several hundred minor details (and several hundred more not-so-minor ones). The protocols are not yet published; there is no known implementation. possibly this contributes to the sceptisim with which this is viewed

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

2006-03-01 Thread bmanning
ok... i've slept some. let me rephrase my agnst this way... when/if a shim6 proof of concept is built, THEN is the time to start debating the merits of shim6 and setting policies on addressing plans. Find one(or more) of the converted, build the darned thing, run some tests, and then there wil

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

2006-03-01 Thread Randy Bush
>>> How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? >> good question. to give such discussion a base, could you >> point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in >> the two most common situation operators see >> o a large multi-homed enterprise customer > There are no docu

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Loch
Kevin Day wrote: If you include "Web hosting company" in your definition of ISP, that's not true. Unless you're providing connectivity to 200 or more networks, you can't get a /32. If all of your use is internal(fully managed hosting) or aren't selling leased lines or anything, you are not

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 13:32, Kevin Day wrote: We have peering arrangements with about 120 ASNs. How do we mix BGP IPv6 peering and Shim6 for transit? You advertise all your PA netblocks to all your peers. Ok, I was a bit too vague there... How do we ensure that peering connections are always

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

2006-03-01 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 1, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 1-Mar-2006, at 02:56, Kevin Day wrote: If you include "Web hosting company" in your definition of ISP, that's not true. Right. I wasn't; I listed them separately. It's important to note that even if you are a hosting company who *does*

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

2006-03-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-mrt-2006, at 17:22, David Barak wrote: I think that we could spend our time better in coming up with a different approach to addressing hierarchy instead. I agree. The address space is one dimensional. This means you can encode a single thing in it in a hierarchical manner "for free".

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:55, David Barak wrote: --- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm just one guy, one ASN, and one content/hosting network. But I can tell you that to switch to using shim6 instead of BGP speaking would be a complete overhaul of how we do things. You are not alone i

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

2006-03-01 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm just one guy, one ASN, and one content/hosting > network. But I > > can tell you that to switch to using shim6 instead > of BGP speaking > > would be a complete overhaul of how we do things. > > You are not alone in fearing change. It isn't

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 11:22, David Barak wrote: Also, the current drafts don't support middleboxes, which a huge number of enterprises use - in fact the drafts specifically preclude their existence, which renders this a complete non-starter for most of my clients. I have not yet reviewed the las

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

2006-03-01 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about some actual technical complaints about > shim6? The jerking > knees become tedious to watch, after a while. Okay, if I'm an enterprise with 6 ISPs but don't qualify for PI space, I'll need to get PA space from all of them, for Shim6 to wor

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

2006-03-01 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:33:51AM -0500, 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 entire infrastructure consist

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

2006-03-01 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> There is > talk at present of whether the protocol needs to be able to > accommodate a site-policy middlebox function to enforce site policy Certainly, firewalls may be the only point such policy will work when the hosts are hidden behind them on a corporate lan 10 years of host legacy l

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
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 entire infrastructure consists of an individual device, and

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

2006-03-01 Thread John Payne
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 entire infrastructure consists of an individual device, and to do so in a scaleable way. Only if *ever

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

2006-03-01 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Randy Bush wrote: How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? good question. to give such discussion a base, could you point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed enterprise

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

2006-03-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 02:56, Kevin Day wrote: On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:47 AM, Joe Abley wrote: o a small to medium multi-homed tier-n isp A small-to-medium, multi-homed, tier-n ISP can get PI space from their RIR, and don't need to worry about shim6 at all. Ditto larger ISPs, up to and inc

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Mar 1, 2006, at 12:47 AM, Joe Abley wrote: o a small to medium multi-homed tier-n isp A small-to-medium, multi-homed, tier-n ISP can get PI space from their RIR, and don't need to worry about shim6 at all. Ditto larger ISPs, up to and including the largest. If you include "Web

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 01:06, Christian Kuhtz wrote: However, the only alternative on the table is a v6 swamp. Would that really be so bad? I keep being bonked on the head by this thing called Moore's law. I don't know that anybody can tell how bad it might be. It'd be a shame if it turned

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 1-Mar-2006, at 01:09, Randy Bush wrote: How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? good question. to give such discussion a base, could you point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed enterp

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

2006-02-28 Thread Randy Bush
> How about some actual technical complaints about shim6? good question. to give such discussion a base, could you point us to the documents which describe how to deploy it in the two most common situation operators see o a large multi-homed enterprise customer o a small to medium multi-home

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

2006-02-28 Thread Christian Kuhtz
On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:00 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 28-Feb-2006, at 23:37, Daniel Golding wrote: Unacceptable. This is the whole problem with shim6 - the IETF telling us to "sit back and enjoy it, because your vendors know what's best". Actually, I think the problem with shim6 is that ther

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28-Feb-2006, at 23:37, Daniel Golding wrote: Unacceptable. This is the whole problem with shim6 - the IETF telling us to "sit back and enjoy it, because your vendors know what's best". Actually, I think the problem with shim6 is that there are far too few operators involved in designi

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

2006-02-28 Thread Daniel Golding
On 2/28/06 5:21 PM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 28-feb-2006, at 23:15, John Payne wrote: > >>> Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry >>> too much about this one. > >> Where does the assumption that the network operators control the >> D

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Feb 28, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 28-feb-2006, at 23:15, John Payne wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators control the DNS for the end hosts come f

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:22 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 28-feb-2006, at 17:09, Kevin Day wrote: 4) Being able to do 1-3 in realtime, in one place, without waiting for DNS caching or connections to expire How fast is real time? And are we just talking about changing preferences here,

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

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 28, 2006 5:15:37 PM -0500 John Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators contr

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

2006-02-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-feb-2006, at 23:15, John Payne wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators control the DNS for the end hosts come from? ...or in another way. Don't worry too much about this

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

2006-02-28 Thread John Payne
On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators control the DNS for the end hosts come from?

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

2006-02-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-feb-2006, at 17:09, Kevin Day wrote: Some problems/issues that are solved by current IPv4 TE practices that we are currently using, that we can't do easily in Shim6: Well, you can't do anything with shim6 because it doesn't exist yet. That's the good part: if you speak up now, you ca

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

2006-02-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-feb-2006, at 16:34, Todd Vierling wrote: A B Y C C C D Y All else being equal, X will choose the path over A to reach Y. There's plenty of route mangler technologies out there that provide overriding BGP information to borders that trumps path length. "All else" is often not as

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28-Feb-2006, at 11:52, Kevin Day wrote: I'm not saying shim6 is flawed beyond anyone being able to use it. I can see many scenarios where it would work great. However, I'm really wary of it becoming the de facto standard for how *everyone* multihomes if they're under a certain size. I'

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Feb 28, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 28-Feb-2006, at 11:09, Kevin Day wrote: Some problems/issues that are solved by current IPv4 TE practices that we are currently using, that we can't do easily in Shim6: Just to be clear, are you speaking from the perspective of an acce

Re: shim6 @ NANOG

2006-02-28 Thread David Barak
--- Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 28-Feb-2006, at 11:09, Kevin Day wrote: > > > Some problems/issues that are solved by current > IPv4 TE practices > > that we are currently using, that we can't do > easily in Shim6: > > Just to be clear, are you speaking from the > perspe

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

2006-02-28 Thread Joe Abley
On 28-Feb-2006, at 11:09, Kevin Day wrote: Some problems/issues that are solved by current IPv4 TE practices that we are currently using, that we can't do easily in Shim6: Just to be clear, are you speaking from the perspective of an access provider, or of an enterprise? Joe

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

2006-02-28 Thread Kevin Day
On Feb 28, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: [Crossposted to shim6 and NANOG lists, please don't make me regret this... Replies are probably best sent to just one list for people who don't subscribe to both.] On 27-feb-2006, at 22:13, Jason Schiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

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

2006-02-28 Thread Todd Vierling
On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >A --- B > / \ > X Y > \ / >C --- D > > C's link to D may be low capacity or expensive, so D would prefer it if X > would send traffic to Y over another route if possible. C can make this happen > in BGP by pre

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

2006-02-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
[Crossposted to shim6 and NANOG lists, please don't make me regret this... Replies are probably best sent to just one list for people who don't subscribe to both.] On 27-feb-2006, at 22:13, Jason Schiller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is it the consensus of the shim6 working group that the fu

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

2005-11-01 Thread Susan Harris
I was hoping to have all of this streamed to my computer, but so far, there are no archived streams... Aren't there any archived streams anymore, or does it take some more time for them to appear? The latter. We're processing the streams now, and they should be available next week.

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

2005-11-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 26-okt-2005, at 19:36, David Meyer wrote: Thanks. I'd also like to thank Geoff, Jason, Vijay, Ted, and everyone to participated in the BOF. I found the session to be quite productive, and I hope that it will form the foundation for an ongoing dialog. I was h

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

2005-10-26 Thread David Meyer
John, On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:08:50AM +1000, Geoff Huston wrote: > > From: John Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: shim6 @ NANOG > > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:11:45 -0400 > > > Public thanks to Dave, Geoff, Vijay, Ted and Jason for their >

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