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Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
From: John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:44:14 -0500
On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
On 2/17/2011 10:24 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote:It might be worth doing for ISP backbones, and for things like tunnel endpoints. For anything else, it's not worth the effort -- and I suspect never was.I think several people's point is that it may be useful for the CGN/LSN numbering and other special case scenarios where a CPE might be compliant and the windows box would be ignorant.
Jack - There's numerous applications, including expanding internal applications such as virtualized servers for which the address space might be useful, if it was actually defined as usable as unicast. Apparently, it is also the case that the operator community wouldn't recognize the usage restrictions that might apply due to the recent reclassification, and would badly hurt themselves by making use of the space inappropriately. Thus, it is deemed better that nobody have use of the 1/16 of the IPv4 space (even if your internal use is perfectly compatible) because some who won't understand might get hurt... ;-) /John
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- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer..., (continued)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... William Herrin (Feb 11)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Michael Dillon (Feb 11)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... John Curran (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Mark Andrews (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Robert E. Seastrom (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... John Curran (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Steven Bellovin (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Jack Bates (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... John Curran (Feb 17)
- RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... George Bonser (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Owen DeLong (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 18)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Owen DeLong (Feb 18)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Cameron Byrne (Feb 17)
- RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... George Bonser (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Cameron Byrne (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... John Curran (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Cameron Byrne (Feb 17)
- RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... George Bonser (Feb 17)