using "reserved" IPv6 space

Sun Jul 15 01:48:49 UTC 2012

Actually, that's one of the most insightful meta-points I've seen on
NANOG in a long time.

There is a HUGE difference between IPv4 and IPv6 thinking.  We've all
been living in an austerity regime for so long that we've completely
forgotten how to leave parsimony behind.  Even those of us who worked
at companies that were summarily handed a Class B when we mumbled
something about "internal subnetting" have a really hard time
remembering how to act when we suddenly don't have to answer for every
single host address and can design a network to conserve other things
(like our brain cells).

-r

-Hammer- <bhmccie at gmail.com> writes:

> <bashes head against wall>
>
> Thank you all. It's not the protocol that hurts. It's rethinking the
> culture/philosophy around it.
>
> -Hammer-
>
> On 7/14/12 3:20 PM, "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
>>They're a bad thing in IPv6.
>>
>>The only place for security through obscurity IMHO is a small round
>>container that sits next to my desk.
>>
>>Besides, if you don't advertise it, a GUA prefix is just as obscure as a
>>ULA prefix and provides a larger search space in which one has to hunt
>>for it... Think /3 instead of /8.
>>
>>Owen
>>
>>On Jul 14, 2012, at 1:14 PM, -Hammer- wrote:
>>
>>> Guys,
>>>    The whole purpose of this is that they do NOT need to be global.
>>> Security thru obscurity. It actually has a place in some worlds. Does
>>>that
>>> make sense? Or are such V4-centric approaches a bad thing in v6?
>>> 
>>> On 7/13/12 8:41 PM, "Brandon Ross" <bross at pobox.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jul 13, 2012, at 4:24 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> keep life simple.  use global ipv6 space.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> randy
>>>>> 
>>>>> Though it is rare, this is one time when I absolutely agree with
>>>>>Randy.
>>>> 
>>>> It's even more rare for me to agree with Randy AND Owen at the same
>>>>time.
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
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>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>