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Re: Cogent move without renumbering
From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson () greendragon com>
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:46:55 -0400
Paul Vixie wrote:
um, no. or maybe yes. that's a different issue altogether than what i said.
Paul, that message wasn't directed to you, it was to Randy.
i don't know or care what isp's matter. i do know what i said, from personal experience as a co-founder and later president of PAIX, is what i meant.
Again, to Randy. You and Woody have far more experience in this than anybody else in the field. Actually, I was somewhat surprised that after all these years and all the IX announcements that so few are actually using them. But not entirely surprised. In my small rural Mississippi experience, even though we were the first ISP there (or maybe because we were the first), we couldn't get a single incoming competitor to agree to interconnect even with a little mutual frame relay to exchange locally. Even though we were the only ISP for Ol' Miss students, when Ol' Miss itself connected via some "free" BellSouth program that kept us from competing, Ol' Miss was prohibited in the contract from interconnecting with us. Meaning all the packets went via Dallas to Atlanta to Jackson just to cross the street. The delays were a constant support irritant.
the last idea i heard in that regard was IPv6's A6/DNAME dns architecture, which i strongly supported, and which would have given IPv6 a qualitative rather than quantitative advantage over IPv4. other than that, tli's comments on the thread where he finally claimed that IPv6 was "too little, too soon", whereas what we needed wasn't more bits but smarter routing, were the last intelligent words spaketh on this topic.
As to the former, the _original_ IPv6 was supposed to be a minimal change, rather than a wholesale redesign. The redesigners were IPv7 and IPv8 (ISO CLNP cum TUBA). As to the latter, speaking as a member of the original IPv6 design team, that is the same sentiment we shared. 64 bit addresses, smarter routing, only what was needed. The original name was "Simpler" IP.
i guess that means, no, i havn't got quick renumbering in my pocket. but i do know that the IX's don't have it either. let's talk about this again every ten years until one of us dies, OK?
Well, as it was 10 years from IPv4 to IPv6, it's been 12+ now, so maybe it's time to design the successor to IPv6.... ;-) -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
Current thread:
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering, (continued)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering Bill Woodcock (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering William Allen Simpson (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering Randy Bush (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering William Allen Simpson (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering Randy Bush (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering William Allen Simpson (Oct 08)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 08)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering William Allen Simpson (Oct 08)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 08)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering Paul Vixie (Oct 08)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering William Allen Simpson (Oct 09)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering Albert Meyer (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering (was: Cogent/Level 3 depeering) Henry Yen (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering (was: Cogent/Level 3 depeering) Paul Vixie (Oct 08)
- Re: Cogent move without renumbering (was: Cogent/Level 3 depeering) Tony Li (Oct 09)
- Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering Lamar Owen (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering Leo Bicknell (Oct 07)
- Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering Daniel Golding (Oct 05)
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- Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering Mike Tancsa (Oct 05)
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- Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering Patrick W. Gilmore (Oct 05)