shared address space... a reality!

Thu Mar 15 21:25:01 UTC 2012

George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Robert E. Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:
>>
>> More like "wasting no time in fulfilling the prophesy that people will
>> treat it like just another rfc1918 space and deploy it wherever they want".
>>
>> not that randy is likely to get bitten because he's not behind a cgn
>> nor is he planning to be, but still, that took all of what, 72 hours?
>>
>> -r
>
> I think this is people reading their preconceived notions onto the situation.
>
> I understand the policy disagreement about having the space in the
> first place.  That said...
>
> Your and Jerome's reactions seem to amount to "Not only should you
> never have done this, actually testing it in the normal informal
> operational area once it's here and approved is a further insult."
>
> My counterargument is - if you are suggesting people should be less
> professional about testing out the new space than they are for any
> other new thing, then you're being political and not operational.
> Operationally this is exactly the right thing to have Randy do.
>
> He certainly didn't need to do this because he's exhausted 1918 space
> at home (well, I hope not... 8-).

In the unlikely but not impossible event that Randy is on 1918 space
at home and has the external address of his consumer home gateway
configured into this space, and thence to a CGN appliance or blade in
the Big Router at his perimeter where he gets NATted into a globally
unique address (i.e., the meat in a NAT444 sandwich), or something
similar, then I certainly stand corrected.  I encourage this sort of
testing.

I'm not reading "my preconceived notions" of anything other than
Randy's personality and very vocal assertions of what people would do
with this space if it got assigned into my assessment of what's going
on here.

Inasmuch as I am pretty sure I'm in Randy's .procmailrc, y'all will
have to ask him directly; don't expect him to chime in replying to my
mail.

-r