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Re: [RRG] Renumbering...



Stephen Sprunk wrote:
We _already_ have a scalable solution that requires end-sites to renumber: RFC 4192. The target market rolled their eyes and got the RIRs to change policy to allow PI assignments in IPv6, just like in IPv4, rather than even give it a try because the very concept was so unacceptable.

As one of the co-authors of that document I believe we may have failed to communicate its intentions clearly. That document doesn't exist to say that renumbering is easy or even particularly scalable in any engineering sense, but rather it provides a method that has been shown to functionally work. If you read it in this light I think you will find that it is quite involved and could take many months to renumber sites because of information retained in configuration files that needs to be sussed out. For instance, we talk about the use of packet analyzers to spot this stuff. That's quite manual.

This having been said, we also hoped that the document would be a call to action on improving renumbering and no matter the RRG's decision (or anyone elses') here, I still think those improvements would be a good idea. PD is a big leap forward but wasn't sufficiently deployed at the time of writing. Even with PD, addresses and prefixes live on in many static places. Those places need to be abstracted. Similarly, the cases where addresses MUST live (like DNS) require substantial care and feeding to allow for automated interactions. That's not easy, because it involves establishing trust relationships and mechanisms.

And there are several cases to consider:

1.  NS delegation mechanism

Both forward and reverse mappings need to change. Both NS delegations will need to be changed. This is often times cross organization, dealing with one group for forward and one group for reverse.

2. Hardcoded addresses in the nameserver configuration itself. This typically impacts people's secondary configuration. All of these need to change.

3. The DHCP configuration for various scopes needs to take into account PD. This is no small task.

Many of these steps are interwoven, and what RFC 4192 *does* do is talk about the order in which to execute tasks.

Eliot


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