[ppml] Legacy /24s
William Herrin
arin-contact at dirtside.com
Sun Sep 2 01:31:28 EDT 2007
On 9/2/07, Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com> wrote:
> > I pulled out and leafed through my old "Internet Protocol Next Generation"
> > book from 1997. Do you realize just how few of the design goals have panned
> > out operationally? Its appalling.
>
> yes, it is. but from a policy standpoint, that doesn't matter. we're going
> to run out of new ipv4 soon, and there are three ways to jump:
>
> 1. stop growing the network
> 2. dramatically increase NATism
> 3. use IPv6
>
> of the three, i like #4.
Paul,
I like option #29: IP extra large. If IP option header #29 is present
starting at the sixth word in the IPv4 header then the "source" part
of the IP header actually contains the four high-order bytes of the
64-bit IP destination address while the seventh and eighth words
contain the 64-bit source address.
I guess it would have been too easy to let us grow incrementally with
only changes on the software side of the house.
> of the three we actually have, though, i pick #3.
Yeah, I can live with that. But I will gripe about it now and then.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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