IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

Josh Smith juicewvu at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 13:42:07 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:07 AM, Arturo Servin <arturo.servin at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 11 Feb 2011, at 04:51, Ricky Beam wrote:
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>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:31:21 -0500, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:
>>> Amusingly enough, I personally (along with others) made arguments along these lines back in 1995 or so when the IAB was coming out with http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1814.txt.  Given the publication of 1814, you can probably guess how far those arguments fared.
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>> You missed the "anticipates external connectivity to the Internet" part.  Networks that never touch the internet have RFC1918 address space to use. (and that works 99.999% of the time.)
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>        Except in acquisitions and private peering.
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> as

Especially during acquisitions, my $EMPLOYEER has made several
acquisitions recently and every one of them was wrought with painful
RFC1918 overlap problems.

Thanks,
Josh Smith
KD8HRX
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