Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock Re: 202203151549.AYC

Wed Mar 16 02:04:01 UTC 2022

> On 16 Mar 2022, at 07:27, Abraham Y. Chen <aychen at avinta.com> wrote:
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> Hi, Tom:
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> 1)    " .... better to have that conversation via the appropriate IETF channels. ":            Thanks for the recommendation. I would appreciate very much if you could guide us to the specific contact. Before we attempt to do so, however, it would be prudent to report the history of our team's experience:
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>     A.    The first IETF Draft on EzIP Project started from 2016-12 as instructed by the ISE (Independent Submission Editor). Although, at that time Working Group SunSet4 had been in session for awhile. But, we were not aware of, nor being informed about such.

ISE != IETF. There is no responsible AD assigned so this is not classed as IETF work.  For ISE work to become IETF work you need to convince a AD to sponsor the work.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-ati-adaptive-ipv4-address-space/

>     B.    In Summer of 2018, we discovered that SunSet4 had Concluded. We contacted the person in charge of keeping an eye on possible future IPv4 activities, but did not receive any instruction to revise our course. 
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>     C.    Recently, we were made aware of the Int-Area activities. Attempts to reach the Group Chairs have not received any responses.
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>     D.    I just received an Int-Area Digest Vol 199, Issue 14 requesting IETF to reactivate the IPv4 support.

Firstly nobody uses mailing list digests as references.  Secondly anyone can post to the mailing list, you just need to subscribe.  If you read the thread you can see there is no interest in this.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/int-area/iZnR1Dkomu4D8AfHTI2xR_npJ8Y/

>     Hope you can help us to close the loose ends.
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> 2)    In the meantime, we realized that the simplest implementation of the EzIP proposal is to replace the 100.64/10 netblock used by CG-NAT with the 240/4 netblock. Next, taking advantage of the much larger address pool to begin practicing static address assignment related disciplines, a "packetized PSTN" is realized. From such a base, the EzIP powered CG-NAT behaving as an overlay network in parallel to the existing Internet for providing the same services, many of the drawbacks in the latter are mitigated! So, we decided to discuss the EzIP proposal directly with the NANOG colleagues, because the EzIP deployment can actually be rather stealthy. 

So replace every CPE device, including the ones you don’t own, to support 240/4 then later replace every CPE device again or replace every CPE device with one that supports the IPv4aaS you have chosen to use and switch to IPv6-only between the ISP and the CPE and get IPv6 delivered to your customers.  Lots of ISP’s have already gone to DS-Lite or 464XLAT, to name two IPv4aaS methods, to provide their clients access to the legacy IPv4 internet over IPv6-only links.  Note nothing prevents there being a mixture of dual stack and IPv6-only clients on the same access network hardware.

Remember even using these addresses as a replacement for 100.64/10 requires every device behind the CPE to also support 240/4 or any traffic emitted from these addresses is subject to be discarded.

> I look forward to your thoughts.
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> Regards,
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> Abe (2022-03-15 16:26)
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> On 2022-03-14 14:48, Tom Beecher wrote:
>> If you want to garner discussion or support for your draft RFC, it's probably better to have that conversation via the appropriate IETF channels. 
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>> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 2:43 PM Abraham Y. Chen <aychen at avinta.com> wrote:
>> Hi, Fred:
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>> 0)    Thank you for a set of references.
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>> 1)    We cited only one IETF Draft (Wilson, et al.) among them, because it was the first and only one that clearly stated its limitation (Section 2. Caveats of Use). More importantly, it was written by three top APNIC officials. Later efforts on this topic have not introduced (based on my reading) any more essence to the topic.
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>> 2)    "...  I was there for those discussions, and I'm not sure how to put it more simply....   ":    With your knowledge of the past, you are uniquely qualified to critique on our work. However, it would be more expedient for everyone, if you could first read through at least the Abstract and the Conclusions of the EzIP IETF Draft, before commenting. This is because EzIP proposal is based on the same general idea as the references you cited, but with a slight extra step that produced a series of surprising results. In particular, we took the "Caveats" above to our hearts before proceeding. So, please put such issues behind you while reviewing our work. Thanks,
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>> Regards,
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>> Abe (2022-03-14 14:39)
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>> ------------------------------
>> NANOG Digest, Vol 170, Issue 15
>> Message: 17
>> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:26:11 -0700
>> From: Fred Baker 
>> <fredbaker.ietf at gmail.com>
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>> To: "Abraham Y. Chen" 
>> <aychen at avinta.com>
>> , William Herrin
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>> <bill at herrin.us>
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>> Cc: NANOG 
>> <nanog at nanog.org>
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>> Subject: Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock
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>> On Mar 12, 2022, at 8:15 AM, Abraham Y. Chen 
>> <aychen at avinta.com>
>>  wrote:
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>>> 2)    On the other hand, there was a recent APNIC blog that specifically reminded us of a fairly formal request for re-designating the 240/4 netblock back in 2008 (second grey background box). To me, this means whether to change the 240/4 status is not an issue. The question is whether we can identify an application that can maximize its impact.
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>>> https://blog.apnic.net/2022/01/19/ip-addressing-in-2021/
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>> I think there might be value in reviewing the discussion of the related Internet Drafts
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>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-deshpande-intarea-ipaddress-reclassification-03
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=draft-deshpande-intarea-ipaddress-reclassification
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>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wilson-class-e-02
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=draft-wilson-class-e
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>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-fuller-240space-02
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?q=draft-fuller-240space
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>> The walkaway I had from these discussions was that while changing the definition of the address space would allow RIRs to sell more IPv4 address space for a few weeks (such as happened to APNIC when the last /8's were handed out), there were not enough addresses in the identified pools to solve the address shortage. So it was in the end a fool's errand. If you want to have address space to address the current shortage, you need an addressing architecture with more addresses. 
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>> I was there for those discussions, and I'm not sure how to put it more simply.
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