[ipv6-wg] Simulation of the future IPv4 world at RIPE meetings?
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Kostas Zorbadelos
kzorba at otenet.gr
Thu Sep 24 16:22:04 CEST 2009
On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:33:04 Niall Murphy wrote: > 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. > I know (and I guess a lot of others too) such setups now in the real world and in quite large scale :) It would be a really bad idea to replicate them, but the future could turn out to be quite ugly. Kostas > 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
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