[ipv6-wg] Simulation of the future IPv4 world at RIPE meetings?
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Niall Murphy
niallm at avernus.net
Thu Sep 24 15:33:04 CEST 2009
What a lovely idea! Stage 4: The entire meeting gets put behind a single IP address, and shares outgoing bandwidth with another meeting, also put behind a single IP address, which has another NAT gateway behind it. For that extra verisimillitude, NRM 2009/9/24 Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> > All, > > Perhaps we should begin preparing ourselves for the future IPv4 world by > simulating various levels of IPv4 exhaustion at future RIPE meetings? > > I can imagine a few stages: > > 1. We can no longer give public IPv4 addresses to attendees. RFC > 1918 for everyone, but with 1:1 mapping to public addresses. > 2. The entire meeting gets NAT'ed to a single /24. > 3. The entire meeting gets NAT'ed to a single IP address. > > Of course, this is the easy side. People are already accustomed to > living behind NAT with their laptops. (They might be a little more > annoyed when Google Maps won't work because there aren't enough ports to > handle all the simultaneous open connections.) > > To be fair, we should also disable IPv4 for access to the meeting > itself, as this is the first problem that new entrants to the Internet > will have. But this is a huge burden on RIPE NCC staff and remote > participants, so this will have to wait. :) > > -- > Shane > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ipv6-wg/attachments/20090924/694784c3/attachment.html>
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