Margaret Wasserman wrote: > How often do you think that people really set-up a private, > disconnected network and later connect it to the Internet? > > Do you think this will be a common real-life case, or is this > more of a theoretical edge case?
Said real company needed to get IPv6 running internally before their service provider was offering service & therefore address space. This will continue to be the case in NA until the attitude at nanog changes. Tony > > Margaret > > > At 04:51 PM 11/13/02, Brian Zill wrote: > >Brian Carpenter writes: > > > 3. Can't stop NAT's anyway. (several people). > > > That may sadly be true, but we shouldn't publish > > > specs that seem to encourage them. > > > >I would argue the opposite -- *preventing* site-locals and > globals from > >co-existing encourages NAT. We're better off today than we would be > >with that restriction. > > > >Case study: A site has a disconnected network happily using > >site-locals. These addresses get embedded in all sorts of > configuration > >scripts, etc. Then they decide to connect to the Internet and get a > >global prefix from their ISP. > > > >Today: They just advertise the new global prefix alongside the > >site-local prefix, all their hard-coded addresses continue to work. > > > >With restriction on mixing site-local and global addresses: > They need > >to renumber their network and find all the places addresses > have been > >specified in config files and the like. Or they could just use a v6 > >NAT. Which do you think will happen? > > > >--Brian > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > >IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > >IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > >FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > >Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List > IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng > FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng > Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
