[arin-ppml] Use of "reserved" address space.

[Owen DeLong]

On Jun 25, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> In a message written on Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 02:46:55PM -0500, David Farmer wrote:
>> I guess my question to Leo and Joe is, what do you suggest should be 
>> done within the scope of the PDP or ARIN to make these addresses available?
> 
> I would find it more useful for ARIN to spend their outreach dollars
> sending staff to IETF or to meet with Cisco and Juniper to persue this
> issue than going to ComicCon[1] to tell people to be IPv6 ready.
> 
Respectfully, I think ComicCon is a cheap and undeserved pot-shot
as you yourself admit in your footnote. I challenge you to list the outreach
locations which you think are ineffective.

I would much rather see ARIN's outreach dollars focused on a clean
long-term solution than spreading additional temporary chaos.

It's going to be a rough road until everyone is IPv6 enabled. Making that
journey longer makes about as much sense to me as installing a hammer
above your head on a spring before driving down an uneven dirt road which
takes a longer windier path than the paved road you are about to depart.
Likely with similar results -- Much more pain than necessary for a much
longer period of time.

> 240/4 is marked "Reserved for Future Use" by the IANA.  What else
> are we going to use it for, isn't the future now?
> 
We probably aren't going to use it, but, it's not part of the useful IPv4 unicast
address space and open source operating systems that can be easily patched
don't even constitute a simple majority of the devices that need to be changed
for it to be useful, so, bringing them up is kind of pointless as a supporting
argument in favor of this fools errand.

Owen

> [1] No, ARIN has not gone to ComicCon as far as I know, and no this does
>    not mean I think all of their outreach efforts are bad.  However, it
>    does mean I think they are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel
>    in terms of looking for useful places to be.
> 
> -- 
>       Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
>        PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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