Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-12 Thread John Curran
Folks - There is an objection by Dean Anderson to the accuracy of statements posted to the IETF list by Stephen Sprunk on October 3 regarding ARIN's obligations to legacy IP address holders. While ARIN hasn't obtained a formal legal opinion on ARIN's obligations to legacy IP assignmen

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-07 Thread Michel Py
>> Michel Py wrote: >> The unanswered question is: are all these tricks going to be >> enough to keep operating IPv4. Nobody knows, but almost >> everyone who already has a v4 address can wait. > Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Well, if in the forseeable future (3 years is a bit short, > though) 50%

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-okt-2007, at 7:00, Michel Py wrote: Think about the following: even if in 3 years 50% of hosts were IPv6-only capable, it would not diminish the need for IPv4. All the double-NAT tricks, unused address reclaim, config cleanup etc are going to happen now no matter what. I'm not saying it'

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-05 Thread Michel Py
>> Michel Py wrote: >> Nothing is going to happen for months. > Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Not so sure. The big ISPs that work in blocks of a million or > so addresses will be the first ones to see their requests turned > down because addresses are out of stock. Presumably, they'll need > those

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-05 Thread Mark Andrews
> On 5-okt-2007, at 6:38, Michel Py wrote: > > > Nothing is going to happen the day the last v4 block is allocated. > > Nothing is going to happen for days. Nothing is going to happen for > > weeks. > > Sure. > > > Nothing is going to happen for months. > > Not so sure. The big ISPs that work

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5-okt-2007, at 6:38, Michel Py wrote: Nothing is going to happen the day the last v4 block is allocated. Nothing is going to happen for days. Nothing is going to happen for weeks. Sure. Nothing is going to happen for months. Not so sure. The big ISPs that work in blocks of a million or

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-04 Thread Michel Py
>>> Michel Py wrote: >>> Each time I see one of these "days remaining before >>> Armageddon" counters, I can't help but remember what >>> happened on January 1, 2000: nothing. >> Keith Moore wrote: >> yes, but that's because people heeded the warnings, and prepared. if >> the same thing happens wr

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-04 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
going to be a problem will result in a solution. We have to think like marketting people. > -Original Message- > From: Artur Hecker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 2:20 PM > To: IETF Discussion > Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition > > Hi

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-04 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
; From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:50 PM > To: Michel Py > Cc: IETF Discussion > Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition > > > > > http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ipv420 > > .h > > t

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-04 Thread Keith Moore
>>> Each time I see one of these "days remaining before Armaggedon" >>> counters, I can't help but remember what happened on January 1, 2000: >>> nothing. >> yes, but that's because people heeded the warnings, and prepared. if >> the same thing happens wrt IPv4 exhaustion, that will be fabulous.

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-04 Thread Artur Hecker
Hi On 4 Oct 2007, at 19:50, Keith Moore wrote: http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ ipv420.h tml Each time I see one of these "days remaining before Armaggedon" counters, I can't help but remember what happened on January 1, 2000: nothing. yes, but that's beca

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-04 Thread Keith Moore
> http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ipv420.h > tml > > Each time I see one of these "days remaining before Armaggedon" > counters, I can't help but remember what happened on January 1, 2000: > nothing. > yes, but that's because people heeded the warnings, and prepa

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-04 Thread Michel Py
> Ruri Hiromi wrote: > http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ipv420.h tml Each time I see one of these "days remaining before Armaggedon" counters, I can't help but remember what happened on January 1, 2000: nothing. Michel.

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-04 Thread David Conrad
John, Which would those be? Thanks, -drc On Oct 3, 2007, at 6:00 AM, John Day wrote: If IANA had any resolve there are at least 25 -30 Class A blocks that should be reclaimed and are not or should not be part of the public Internet address space. __

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "John Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If IANA had any resolve there are at least 25 -30 Class A blocks that should be reclaimed and are not or should not be part of the public Internet address space. AFAIK, IANA does not have any reclamation procedures, nor have any every been assumed to e

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
> On Oct 3, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Ruri Hiromi wrote: > > http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ > > ipv420.html > > well, i could imagine what its good for , but an english version > would be appreciated ;) the widget itself is bilingual (english/japanese). ito

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread John Day
grow in the developing regions of the globe. Ray -Original Message- From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 4:39 PM To: Ray Plzak Cc: Tim Chown; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition Ray, I don't think it's quit

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Ole Jacobsen
It actually IS English, try installing, it localizes. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Marc Manthey wrote: > > O

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Ruri Hiromi
dedicate to ostriches... http://www.apple.com/en/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ ipv420.html On 2007/10/02, at 22:32, Tim Chown wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red her

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Tony Hansen
courtesy of google translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fjp%2Fdownloads%2Fdashboard%2Fnetworking_security%2Fipv420.html+&langpair=ja%7Cen&hl=en&safe=off&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Tony Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc Manthey

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 07:55:40PM +0900, Ruri Hiromi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 64 lines which said: >http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ipv420.html ^^ Many webmasters still have not read RFC 4646 :-( > let m

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Marc Manthey
On Oct 3, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Ruri Hiromi wrote: http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ ipv420.html hi Ruri , well, i could imagine what its good for , but an english version would be appreciated ;) cheers Marc -- Marc Manthey - LET - research + deployment D-

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Ruri Hiromi
correction, http://www.apple.com/jp/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ ipv420.html let me know what do you think about it :-) Regards, On 2007/10/03, at 11:24, Ruri Hiromi wrote: dedicate to ostriches... http://www.apple.com/en/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ ipv420.html

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-03 Thread Ray Plzak
Cc: Tim Chown; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition > > Ray, > > I don't think it's quite fair to refer to ostriches > when ARIN is already on record: > http://www.arin.net/v6/v6-resolution.html > > Also, for those who like to see things in real ti

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Michel Py
> Ray Plzak wrote: > The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red > herring. All one has to do is apply for them from the RIR. Getting > a service provider to route them is a different problem, especially > when they profit from running your traffic through their NAT. ..or espec

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Ruri Hiromi
dedicate to ostriches... http://www.apple.com/en/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ ipv420.html On 2007/10/02, at 22:32, Tim Chown wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red her

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:32 AM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. that has to rank a

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Ray Plzak
t: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:32 AM > To: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > Ray Plzak wrote: > > > The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red > herring

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Ray Plzak
should have been "is" > -Original Message- > From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:06 AM > To: Ray Plzak > Cc: philemon; Hannes Tschofenig; Stephen Sprunk; ietf@ietf.org; Paul > Hoffman > Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-okt-2007, at 15:05, Keith Moore wrote: Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. that has to rank as one of the most bizarre statements that's ever been made on the ietf list. Yellow herring? There are five RIRs that serve different

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Tim Chown
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > Ray Plzak wrote: > > The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. > that has to rank as one of the most bizarre statements that's ever been > made on the ietf list. More of an ostrich than a herring? .=

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Keith Moore
Ray Plzak wrote: > The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. that has to rank as one of the most bizarre statements that's ever been made on the ietf list. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Ray Plzak
age- > From: philemon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 6:40 AM > To: Hannes Tschofenig; Keith Moore > Cc: Stephen Sprunk; ietf@ietf.org; Paul Hoffman > Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition > > Hi All > > > > Just an input about the NAT issue

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread philemon
nds'. Thanks Philemon - Original Message - From: "Hannes Tschofenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Keith Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen Sprunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; "Paul Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: Peers, servers and consumers (was RE: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition)

2007-07-17 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: Ted Hardie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >There are essentially three classes of network actor: > client, server and peer. In any given interaction there is > always an initiator and a responder. In most cases these > correspond to the client and the server. In a peer-to-peer > applicati

Peers, servers and consumers (was RE: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition)

2007-07-17 Thread Ted Hardie
> >There are essentially three classes of network actor: client, server and peer. >In any given interaction there is always an initiator and a responder. In most >cases these correspond to the client and the server. In a peer-to-peer >application a given machine may be either an initiator or a r

RE: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-17 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
12:02 PM > To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip; Hannes Tschofenig; Brian E Carpenter > Cc: Melinda Shore; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 > transition > > >So terminating the application session at layer 7 and then > originating a fre

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Douglas Otis
On Jul 16, 2007, at 4:51 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: Another problem is the lack of naming and lookup facilities. DNS SRV records are probably going to be as good as it gets. VoIP protocols and others that make use of embedded addresses actually do have an advantage here, because they're ab

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Ted Hardie
>So terminating the application session at layer 7 and then originating a fresh >one at the point where the numbering scheme changes appears to me to be a >simple and principled approach. > There are two ways I can read this, and I suspect I've got them both wrong. The first is the "flag day" m

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/16/07 10:43 AM, "Joel Jaeggli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Widespread deployment of ALG's as mediators means you have to upgrade > the network to support new applications. or applications are built on > top of hostile tunnels over your alg infrastructure (sound familiar?). > While some enterp

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Melinda Shore wrote: > On 7/16/07 6:29 AM, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The way I look at the problem we have a gateway issue similar to those that >> we >> used to have with smtp in the days of decnet sna etc. > > Maybe, but there are differences that make it harder. Ch

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon Jul 16 11:29:54 2007, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The way I look at the problem we have a gateway issue similar to those that we used to have with smtp in the days of decnet sna etc. The only difference is that we have both sides of the gateway running IP albeit with different numberin

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/16/07 6:29 AM, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The way I look at the problem we have a gateway issue similar to those that we > used to have with smtp in the days of decnet sna etc. Maybe, but there are differences that make it harder. Chief among these is that there wer

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/16/07 4:13 AM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe by a lack of simplicity? Midcom and SIMCO are very simple. I think that there are a few problems, which taken in aggregate make NAT "control" a hard sell. One is that in even modestly complex networks either the applicati

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 01:30 AM Pacific Standard Time To: Brian E Carpenter Cc: Melinda Shore; ietf@ietf.org Subject:Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition Hi Brian, regarding lack of simplicity: Different solutions build on different

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
16, 2007 01:30 AM Pacific Standard Time To: Brian E Carpenter Cc: Melinda Shore; ietf@ietf.org Subject:Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition Hi Brian, regarding lack of simplicity: Different solutions build on different assumptions. If you make specific

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Hi Brian, regarding lack of simplicity: Different solutions build on different assumptions. If you make specific assumptions then the solution is much simpler. There is a recent document that aims to compare some of the NAT / firewall protocol proposals: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-07-14 00:07, Melinda Shore wrote: On 7/13/07 5:43 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe that we need a more general protocol for hosts inside a site perimeter to communicate with the perimeter gateways and request services from them. We've actually got several of

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-14 Thread Douglas Otis
On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I think we need to look beyond whether NAT is evil (or not) and whether NATPT is the solution (or not) and look to see how we might manage a transition to IPv6 in a way that is not predicated on holding ISP customers hostage. Peo

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-14 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Fact: There are NATs and stateful packet filtering firewalls that cause problems for some applications. It is quite likely that these devices will not go away. Phillip also seems to have this view. I replied to him with regard to the conclusion he draw. He seems to think that the right way to

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
OTECTED]>, 'Stephen Sprunk' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 'Keith Moore' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 'Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: 'Paul Hoffman' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Asunto: RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition There are two funda

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Tony Hain
ly thing we can do now is stand back and get ready to roast marshmallows on the fire of the media driven panic when the pool runs dry. Tony From: Hallam-Baker, Phillip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 10:57 AM To: Stephen Sprunk; Keith Moore; Jun-ichiro itojun H

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/13/07 5:43 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that we need a more general protocol for hosts inside a site > perimeter to communicate with the perimeter gateways and request > services from them. We've actually got several of them, starting with SOCKS (which could

RE: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread michael.dillon
> ...and the only problem I have with the above is that the > word MOST can be misleading. it's not as if most of the > problems with NATs would go away if only all NATs were to > suddenly support UPnP extensions to allow > NAT traversal. that would certainly help, but significant > brain-d

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Keith Moore
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > I don't think the IETF creates protocols that fail when used through a > NAT when it's just as easy to make the protocol work though the NAT as > is the case with FTP. yes, but it's not "just as easy" to make FTP work through the NAT...at least, not without losing the

The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13-jul-2007, at 22:11, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: As Phillip stated, I don't see the problem with future applications. Compare this with the security aspects that are taken care of much more than before when developing new applications NAT traversal is just another thing to think about as

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Keith Moore
>> there are a couple of problems with this analysis: >> >> one is that it considers only application protocols that are in >> widespread use. there are lots of applications that are used by limited >> communities that are nevertheless important. > > Namely? that's a silly question. you wouldn't

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Hi Keith, Keith Moore wrote: Most application protocols work just fine behind NAT. FTP works with an ugly work-around. The main protocol that breaks down is SIP. there are a couple of problems with this analysis: one is that it considers only application protocols that are in widespread

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Hi Phillip, ~Snip~ Most application protocols work just fine behind NAT. I agree. I am playing games for a really long time and I rarely had ever problems with NATs. Obviously these companies don't shy away from solution that would be classified as "architectural not nice". Without knowing th

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Keith Moore
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > Future applications are the easiest to deal with. > > If we have a proper encapsulation of the network layer the application > will run fine on either an IPv6 or an IPv4/NAT network or a > transitional IPv6 plus NAT pool of IPv4 addresses. The only thing that > the

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
: Hallam-Baker, Phillip Cc: Stephen Sprunk; Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino; Paul Hoffman; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition > Most application protocols work just fine behind NAT. FTP works with > an ugly work-around. The main protocol that breaks down is SIP. > there are a

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Keith Moore
> Most application protocols work just fine behind NAT. FTP works with > an ugly work-around. The main protocol that breaks down is SIP. > there are a couple of problems with this analysis: one is that it considers only application protocols that are in widespread use. there are lots of applica

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread shogunx
> The way to fix this situation in my view is to make the NAT box SIP > aware by building a SIP proxy capability into the NAT box. The designers > of NAT boxes go to great efforts to try to work around applications. > Leave approaches such as STUN to the case where you are dealing with a > legacy b

IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I think we need to look beyond whether NAT is evil (or not) and whether NATPT is the solution (or not) and look to see how we might manage a transition to IPv6 in a way that is not predicated on holding ISP customers hostage. People have been there and done that, anyone remember when the anti-sp