[address-policy-wg] Just say *NO* to PI space -- or how to make it lessdestructive
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Nils Ketelsen
nils at druecke.strg-alt-entf.org
Mon Apr 24 08:36:52 CEST 2006
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:54:58PM +0200, Roger Jorgensen wrote: > > IPv6 has made it possible to renumber the network almost automatically. > > it seems possible to make that change without a "flag day" and an outage. > > however, the tools are mostly *NOT* there for similarly easy renumbering > > of router ACLs and firewall configs and DNS, so as the size of the network > > increases, large organizations are saying there is still a significant > > cost to renumbering (at this time...). one can only hope that appropriate > > tools will be developed to make full renumbering reasonably painless. > exactly! Let's use the time creatig the tools, create some standards and > guidelines on HOWTO renumber instead of spending time reduing the same > mistakes done in IPv4. We now have the change to save ourself from alot of > trouble ~10-15years into the future... Your wording implies PI was a mistake in IPv4. I think it is one of the reasons for its success, not a mistake. Nils
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