ARIN fights IP address trading as transition to IPv6 may get new deadlines

["Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>]

-----Original Message-----
From: dewayne-net [mailto:dewayne-net () warpspeed com] On Behalf Of Dewayne
Hendricks
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 11:41 AM
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] re: ARIN fights IP address trading as transition to
IPv6 may get new deadlines

[Note:  This comment comes from reader Mike O'Dell.  DLH]

From: Mike O'Dell <mo () ccr org>
Date: August 4, 2007 7:32:21 PM PDT
To: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Subject: Re: [Dewayne-Net] ARIN fights IP address trading as  
transition to IPv6 may get new deadlines


"...as there are no longer any large uncharted areas in the world of  
IPv6
technology..."

i guess if you know something doesn't work, it's not "uncharted" -
rather the chart says "Here there be Really Nasty Dragons".

to pick two of my favorites, although they are admittedly related:

there is currently no solution for multihoming.

and

there is currently no solution for the exponential growth of routing
advertisements and the resulting processing requirements for the
computation of forwarding tables. (no, i'm not talking about the
resulting *size* forwarding table, although there are serious problems
with that, too.)

the entire topic of addressing in IPv6 reveals a complete
misapprehension of what various "addresses" do and the properties they
need to have in networks, and i say this as a listed author of the
IPv6 addressing specs.

designing a protocol without nailing down the semantics of addressing
is rather like setting out to make tires without deciding they need to
be round. it makes things more than a bit tricky to sort out.

but if you believe the funny papers, somehow wishing Really Hard will
make it all work out just ducky.

Unfortunately, Heiden's Law tends to take precedence.

Cheers,
-mo

=================================================================

Heiden's Law:

When you want it bad,
You get it bad,
And most people want it in the worst way.

-- Heidi Heiden, DCA commander who picked IP/TCP over OSI for
Milnet and ultimately the Internet as a whole.



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