WEBINAR TUESDAY: Can We Make IPv4 Great Again?

Mon Mar 6 16:32:15 UTC 2017

I believe that. However it behooves us to give any of our members' ideas a
fair hearing. I'm hoping he'll get some good push back in the session.

Joly MacFie
joly at punkcast.com 218 565 9365

On Mar 6, 2017 11:14 AM, "William Herrin" <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:08 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
> > To say that Mr. Chen's EZIP proposal has not, thus far, been received
> with
> > open arms by the networking community would be an understatement. It is
> > seen as delaying the inevitable and introducing an impractical extra
> > routing hardware layer that will be hit & miss. Nevertheless, since much
> of
> > the world is still IPv4 dependent, it just could take off. ISOC-NY is
> happy
> > to give him the opportunity to expound on its merits.
> > We'd welcome some expert respondents.
> >
> > See:
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chen-ati-ipv4-with-
> adaptive-address-space-00
>
> Hi Joly,
>
> If something like this was going to happen, we could have expanded the
> v4 address space to 64 bits with IPxl:
> http://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html
>
> At this point IPv6 has enough momentum that it can be safely expected
> to happen. That means all proposals for extending the IPv4 address
> space are basically dead in the water, especially complicated ones.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>
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