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Re: Stepping down as IETF chair in March - & - RE: A personal take on WG's priorities..
The need you describe is the true need of the users. What they discuss is
IPv6 as an IPv4 patch better than NATs. You discuss tier to tier exchanges.
This is almost a different vision of the network.
A vision IPv6 is properly design to support. The problem acknowledged by
Michel Py and Steve Crocker, and others, mainly comes from the "a la IPv4"
management of the IPv6 addressing plan. Innovation is blocked there. This
is to do with ICANN's IANA and numbering plan organization and
intergovernance, not with IPv6.
Please read Mr. Zhao's contribution drafts for ITU on the matter if you
find one (I understand that he plans releasing his position by
mid-November?). You document THE main need for IPv6: to permit a flexible
management of tier and tier universal relations. For a while NAT helped a
lot - and will continue and improve - at intranet level. But end-users need
much more: a full control, that only IPv6 can deliver, as you show it. When
an adequate IPv6 addressing plan is offered and used by end-users, NATs
will disappear as useless, costly and obsolete constraints.
You cannot change things on the internet, you can only improve them and
make them obsolete.
jfc
At 03:31 07/11/2004, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 12:38:21 PST, Tony Hain said:
all space currently considered lost. Given that IANA allocated 9 /8's
over a
6 month period this year, coupled with the fact that only 78 /8's
remain in
the useful part of the pool (ie: 52 month burn out),
They said that just before CIDR happened, too.
We are already out of addresses. I cannot easily connect from my
laptop in my apartment (behind a NAT) with a friend's laptop in his
apartment (because it is also behind a NAT). This makes quickly
transferring pictures or documents from my machine to a friend's
machine a pain in the neck.
We ran out of addresses for practical purposes years ago. Anyone who
is running a NAT is doing so because it was easier to do that than to
try to get address space.
Perry
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