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Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 37, Issue 93


From: Rudolph Daniel <rudi.daniel () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 15:28:28 -0400

Is anyone on this list aware of any IPv6 ready networks in the English
speaking caribbean?

Rudi Daniel


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Today's Topics:

  1. Re: quietly.... (Owen DeLong)
  2. Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too? (Simon Leinen)
  3. Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too? (Fred Richards)
  4. Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market (Joel Jaeggli)
  5. Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too? (Cameron Byrne)
  6. Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market (John Curran)
  7. Re: quietly.... (Roland Perry)
  8. Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market (Joel Jaeggli)
  9. Re: quietly.... (Roland Perry)
 10. Re: quietly.... (Owen DeLong)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 08:22:55 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Subject: Re: quietly....
To: "Lee Howard" <lee () asgard org>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
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Firewalls merely constrict it.  Not that I advocate against the use of
firewalls;
in fact, I think I'm agreeing with you, and extending the argument a
little
further,
that we should move from NAT to firewalls, then from stateful firewalls
to
secure hosts and network security appliances.

Lee



I would be fine with that. However, in terms of the art of the possible
with the tools available today, IPv6 has no need of NAT, but, firewalls
cannot yet be safely removed from the equation.

Owen




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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:43:04 +0100
From: Simon Leinen <simon.leinen () switch ch>
Subject: Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too?
To: Tim Chown <tjc () ecs soton ac uk>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
Message-ID: <aatyghjeqv.fsf () macsl switch ch>
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Tim Chown writes:
Which of the big boys are doing it?

Google - although there don't call themselves a web hoster, they can be
used for hosting web sites using services such as Sites or App Engine.
Both support IPv6, either using the opt-in mechanism or by using an
alternate CNAME (ghs46 instead of ghs.google.com).  That's what I use.

None of the other large "cloud" providers seems to support IPv6 for
their users yet.  In particular, neither Amazon's AWS not Microsoft
Azure have much visible activity in this direction.  Rackspace have
announced IPv6 support for the first half of 2011.

Concerning the more traditional webhosting offerings, I have no idea
about the "big boys".  Here in Switzerland, a few smaller hosters
support IPv6.  And I saw IPv6 mentioned in ads for some German server
hosting offering.  Germany is interesting because it has a
well-developed hosting ecosystem with some really big players.
--
Simon.



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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 11:49:06 -0500
From: Fred Richards <fredr () geexology org>
Subject: Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too?
To: NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
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I ran across this link a while back, it shows, of the top 100k
websites (according to Alexa), which ones are IPv6 enabled:


http://www.atoomnet.net/ipv6_enabled_popular_websites.php?complete_list=true



On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Simon Leinen <simon.leinen () switch ch>
wrote:
Tim Chown writes:
Which of the big boys are doing it?

Google - although there don't call themselves a web hoster, they can be
used for hosting web sites using services such as Sites or App Engine.
Both support IPv6, either using the opt-in mechanism or by using an
alternate CNAME (ghs46 instead of ghs.google.com). ?That's what I use.

None of the other large "cloud" providers seems to support IPv6 for
their users yet. ?In particular, neither Amazon's AWS not Microsoft
Azure have much visible activity in this direction. ?Rackspace have
announced IPv6 support for the first half of 2011.

Concerning the more traditional webhosting offerings, I have no idea
about the "big boys". ?Here in Switzerland, a few smaller hosters
support IPv6. ?And I saw IPv6 mentioned in ads for some German server
hosting offering. ?Germany is interesting because it has a
well-developed hosting ecosystem with some really big players.
--
Simon.





--
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Fred



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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:15:09 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Subject: Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market
To: John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
Message-ID: <4D4ED71D.7020104 () bogus com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On 2/6/11 8:00 AM, John Curran wrote:
On Feb 5, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

What's really needed is seperate the routing slot market from the
address allocation market.

Bingo! In fact, having an efficient market for obtaining routing of a
given prefix, combined with IPv6 vast identifier space, could actually
satisfy the primary goals that we hold for a long-term scalable address
architecture, and enable doing it in a highly distributed, automatable
fashion:

So assuming this operates on a pollution model the victims of routing
table bloat are compensated by the routing table pollutors for the use
of the slots which they have to carry. so I take the marginal cost of
the slots that I need subtract the royalities I recieve from the other
participants and if I'm close to the mean number of slots per
participant then it nets out to zero.

 Routing table growth continues but with some illusion of fairness and
the cost of maintaining an elaborate system which no-one needs.

Yay?


Aggregation would be encouraged, since use of non-aggregatable address
space would entail addition costs. These costs might be seen as minimal
for some organizations that desire addressing autonomy, but others might
decide treating their address space portable and routable results in
higher cost than is desired. Decisions about changing prefixes with
ISPs can be made based on a rational tradeoff of costs, rather than in
a thicket of ISP and registry policies.

Conservation would actually be greatly improved, since address space
would only be sought after because of the need for additional unique
identifiers, rather than obtaining an address block of a given size
to warrant implied routability.  In light of IPv6's vast address
space, it actually would be possible to provide minimally-sized but
assured unique prefixes automatically via nearly any mechanism (i.e.
let your local user or trade association be a registry if they want)

With a significantly reduced policy framework, Registration could be
fully automated, with issuance being as simple as assurance the right
level of verification of requester identity (You might even get rid
of this, if you can assure that ISPs obtain clear identity of clients
before serving them but that would preclude any form of reputation
systems based on IP address prefix such as we have in use today...)

Just think: the savings in storage costs alone (from the reduction in
address policy-related email on all our mailing lists) could probably
fund the system. :-)

Oh well, one project at a time...
/John






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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 09:27:58 -0800
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6 () gmail com>
Subject: Re: Top webhosters offering v6 too?
To: fredr () geexology org
Cc: NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
Message-ID:
       <AANLkTikjc1e_YoUt7ntFHtdSneMH44-TBZ-ZJ8VLTNA9 () mail gmail com>
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I have used both softlayer and arpnetworks. Both have v6 by default, but
only softlayer can be considered a big boy... multiple sites. Cloud and
dedicated servers ... softlayer is a class act with v6 added for free


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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:32:17 -0500
From: John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>
Subject: Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
Message-ID: <83EF5AB0-741E-4FB2-A348-00477482A848 () istaff org>
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On Feb 6, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

So assuming this operates on a pollution model the victims of routing
table bloat are compensated by the routing table pollutors for the use
of the slots which they have to carry. so I take the marginal cost of
the slots that I need subtract the royalities I recieve from the other
participants and if I'm close to the mean number of slots per
participant then it nets out to zero.

Routing table growth continues but with some illusion of fairness and
the cost of maintaining an elaborate system which no-one needs.

One hopes that the costs of consuming routing table slots creates
backpressure to discourage needless use, and that the royalities
receive offset the costs of carrying any additional routing table
slots.

Note that our present system lacks both consistent backpressure on
consumption of routing table slots and compensation for carrying
additional routes.

/John

p.s. While I do believe there would be a net benefit, it also
    should be noted that there is no apparent way to transition
    to such a model in any case, i.e., it could have been done
    that way from the beginning, but a large scale economic
    reengineering effort at this point might be impossible.



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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:45:46 +0000
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Subject: Re: quietly....
To: nanog () nanog org
Message-ID: <uCKSinaK5tTNFATH () perry co uk>
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed

In article <85D304BA-6C4E-4B86-9717-2ADB542B8606 () delong com>, Owen
DeLong <owen () delong com> writes

Part of the problem is knowing in advance what ISPs will and won't
do. It's all very well saying one shouldn't patronise an ISP that
blocks port 25, for example, but where is that documented before you buy?

If they don't document partial internet access blockage in the contract
and the contract says they are providing internet access, then, they
are in breach and you are free to depart without a termination fee and
in most cases, demand a refund for service to date.

You may be right about enforcing that in the USA (is it an FCC thing?),
but it won't fly in most other places.

Admittedly, I'm not over-fussed about email on my phone and I don't use
a tether device at this point.

The 3G I'm discussing is a dongle intended for general access.

I mostly expect 3G and 4G networks to be broken internet anyway. I was
more speaking in terms of land-line providers.

Apparently there are something like three times as many people with
mobile phones in the world, as with Internet access. And a lot of
network expansion is expected to be based on mobile connectivity as a
result.
--
Roland Perry



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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:49:12 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Subject: Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market
To: John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog () nanog org>
Message-ID: <4D4EDF18.3000207 () bogus com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

On 2/6/11 9:32 AM, John Curran wrote:
One hopes that the costs of consuming routing table slots creates
backpressure to discourage needless use, and that the royalities
receive offset the costs of carrying any additional routing table
slots.

Note that our present system lacks both consistent backpressure on
consumption of routing table slots and compensation for carrying
additional routes.

The costs of carrying routes is unevenly distributed. when I have to
carry 2 million routes in my fib on few hundred 120Gb/s line cards it's
a bit different than someone with a software router who just has to make
sure they have 4GB of ram...

That has very attractive properties along some dimensions. e.g. the cost
at the margin of connecting a new participant to the internet is rather
low.




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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 17:49:28 +0000
From: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Subject: Re: quietly....
To: nanog () nanog org
Message-ID: <5iyXqtbo8tTNFAyd () perry co uk>
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed

In article <20110205131510.BE13E9B5167 () drugs dv isc org>, Mark Andrews
<marka () isc org> writes
And when my vendor is Sipura, or Sony[1], how does an individual small
enterprise attract their attention and get the features added?

You return the equipment as not suitable for the advertised purpose
and demand your money back.  Renumbering is expected to occur with
IPv6, part of renumbering is getting the name to address mappings
right.  With DHCP the DHCP server normally does it.  With SLAAC the
host has to do it as there is no other choice.

Here in Australia it is Repair/Replace/Refund if the product purchased
is faulty.  That applies to all products.  If the milk is off when
we get home we go back and get it replaced and if the store is out
of stock we get a refund.  I've returned and had replaced plenty
of stuff over the years.

I think you are just confirming my view that moving from IPv4 to IPv6
will involve more than the ISP doing some magic that's transparent to
the majority of users. And good luck returning a 3 year old PS/3 for a
refund on the basis it doesn't support IPv6.
--
Roland Perry



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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 10:17:00 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Subject: Re: quietly....
To: Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Message-ID: <BC37A5F0-78DE-4881-B649-0D42610BE7BF () delong com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii


On Feb 6, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Roland Perry wrote:

In article <20110205131510.BE13E9B5167 () drugs dv isc org>, Mark Andrews <
marka () isc org> writes
And when my vendor is Sipura, or Sony[1], how does an individual small
enterprise attract their attention and get the features added?

You return the equipment as not suitable for the advertised purpose
and demand your money back.  Renumbering is expected to occur with
IPv6, part of renumbering is getting the name to address mappings
right.  With DHCP the DHCP server normally does it.  With SLAAC the
host has to do it as there is no other choice.

Here in Australia it is Repair/Replace/Refund if the product purchased
is faulty.  That applies to all products.  If the milk is off when
we get home we go back and get it replaced and if the store is out
of stock we get a refund.  I've returned and had replaced plenty
of stuff over the years.

I think you are just confirming my view that moving from IPv4 to IPv6
will involve more than the ISP doing some magic that's transparent to the
majority of users. And good luck returning a 3 year old PS/3 for a refund on
the basis it doesn't support IPv6.
--
Roland Perry

I'm pretty sure the PS3 will get resolved through a software update.

Yes, there will be user-visible disruptions in this transition.

No, it can't be 100% magic on the part of the service provider.

It still has to happen. There is no viable alternative.

Owen




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