IPv6 Pain Experiment

Fri Oct 4 14:45:54 UTC 2019

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 5:13 AM Masataka Ohta
<mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:
>
> Doug Barton wrote:
>
> > And even
> > if you do need to change providers, once you have your addressing plan
> > in place all you have to change is the prefix.
>

This is the same as saying "If you need to change providers in IPv4,
once you have your addressing plan in place all you have to do is
change the prefix", or "To build the Eiffel Tower, all you have to do
is bolt bits of metal together" -- it's technically correct*, but
handwaves away the actual complexity and scale of work.
Yes, you (clearly) can renumber v6 networks, and it's *probably*
easier than renumbering v4, but "just change the prefix" oversells it.

> Your attempt to hype people that renumbering were easy has
> zero probability of success here.
>
> > Except that it's not failing,
>
> It failed from the beginning.

W
*: Yes, the best kind of correct.

>
>                                                 Masataka Ohta

-- 
I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad
idea in the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing
regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair
of pants.
   ---maf