Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-19 Thread ned+ietf
On 6/15/10 11:04 AM, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: And since I'm not in the best of moods I'll also answer in kind by saying us application engineers might also be waiting for someone with half a clue as to how to design a proper standard API to come along and do that. Ned,

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-17 Thread Vesna Manojlovic
Hi, On 6/1/10 7:19 PM, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: As I've stated previously, I believe the main piece that's missing is a SOHO-grade router that has full IPv6 support, 6to4 support, full IPv4/NAT/firewall support, plus a readonably intuitive GUI to administer it all. If such a product

Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-16 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
getaddrinfo() works for clients. It does not work for servers, in particular it does not work for peer-to-peer services that may be hidden behind layers of NAT44, NAT46 and NAT64. Port forwarding requests have to be a part of the model. That in turn means that there has to be a security model.

Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-16 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
The mistake there being to insist on implementation of the IPv6 specification rather than what is necessary to enable the transition to IPv6. You can't build a building without scaffolding. In the middle ages the design of the scaffold was often as great an engineering feat as the building (c.f.

Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-16 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Anyone can design a system for use by highly motivated geniuses. It takes a lot more skill to build something that can be used by people whose primary motivation is not to make 'your stuff' work. The issue Ned raises is very typical of what most engineers spend 80% of their time on - fixing

Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-16 Thread Douglas Otis
On 6/15/10 11:04 AM, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: And since I'm not in the best of moods I'll also answer in kind by saying us application engineers might also be waiting for someone with half a clue as to how to design a proper standard API to come along and do that. Ned, Agreed,

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-15 Thread Thierry Ernst
Dear all, I follow this amusing debate - I'm not reacting to this post specifically. I would like to point out that there are people out there specifying communication architectures for new uses of the Internet, e.g. Cooperative Systems for communications involving vehicles. The system

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-15 Thread Alfred Hönes
At Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:30:03 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote, in response to a message from Masataka Ohta: The URI syntax you specify is only used for some protocols and most of the elements are defaulted. In fact we have got to the point where for Web browsing everything is defaulted except

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-15 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Alfred HÎnes a...@tr-sys.de wrote: At Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:30:03 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote, in response to a message from Masataka Ohta: The URI syntax you specify is only used for some protocols and most of the elements are defaulted. In fact we have

Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-15 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Yes, I am aware that some applications are IPv6 only. But I don't think that they have enough momentum to carry the IPv4 world forward into IPv6. The applications that are following that route are self-selecting for requiring little or no IPv4 connectivity. There are two models of technology

Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: But in a Betamax/VHS type contest, attempting to differentiate the new through obfuscation merely raises barriers to transition. In that circumstance you want to minimize the differences between the two technologies so that they can be

Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-15 Thread Melinda Shore
Fred Baker wrote: I have a solution. Let's go through those OS's and rename gethostbyname to GetHostByName. Put in huge comments everywhere that the character string is found (man pages, which btw already have this, and in the code itself) if you use this, you're an idiot. Make folks use

Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-15 Thread ned+ietf
On Jun 15, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: But in a Betamax/VHS type contest, attempting to differentiate the new through obfuscation merely raises barriers to transition. In that circumstance you want to minimize the differences between the two technologies so that they

Re: Models of change Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 6/15/2010 7:30 PM, Fred Baker wrote: Yes, all we need is application engineers with a network clue. They seem to be hard to come by. Every layer is clue-challenged, when it comes to staffing. Possibly at other times, too. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-14 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
The URI syntax you specify is only used for some protocols and most of the elements are defaulted. In fact we have got to the point where for Web browsing everything is defaulted except for the domain name. I think we need to break the idea that a Web service should have a URL that starts HTTP.

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-14 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
You completely missed the point of my post. HTTPS is just as bad as HTTP as a URL for a Web Service. HTTP is a low level protocol, the layering of the Web service on HTTP or SOAP over HTTP or whatever should be abstracted away in the Web Service URI. Just like we abstract away the fact we are

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message ikG3jf9YmyaauWK/lh7bqg@lochnagar.gulbrandsen.priv.no, Arnt Gul brandsen writes: Mark Andrews writes: Seriously, I do think it is time that the root and TLD's had IPv6 only name servers. Why (and do you mean all 6-only or one 6-only)? Because there are IPv6 only

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message aanlktimoqnpmkcbitki07kag9xtroyiv84rqsmo0d...@mail.gmail.com, Phil lip Hallam-Baker writes: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: I'm thinking 10, 15+ years out when there are lots of IPv6 only served zones. Much the same way we no longer worry

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-11 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Mark Andrews writes: Seriously, I do think it is time that the root and TLD's had IPv6 only name servers. Why (and do you mean all 6-only or one 6-only)? Arnt ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 01no5qt3qgkc000...@mauve.mrochek.com, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com w rites: If this is accurate, I think you need to go back and reread John Klensin's recent messages for why this scenario really isn't all that

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: I'm thinking 10, 15+ years out when there are lots of IPv6 only served zones.  Much the same way we no longer worry about MTA's that don't know about MX records and no longer add A records to accomodate them. Why would there

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-11 Thread Masataka Ohta
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I note in passing that this might have played out differently had we gotten SRV record support in place for all protocols a lot sooner. But without it for HTTP in particular you're faced with the need for multiple port 80s in a lot of cases. What I would like

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-11 Thread Masataka Ohta
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The URI syntax you specify is only used for some protocols and most of the elements are defaulted. In fact we have got to the point where for Web browsing everything is defaulted except for the domain name. The point was to change the default of 80. I think we

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Dillon
to check and see if this device supports multiple IPv4 addresses and 1:1 NAT. Unless I'm missing something, it does not. It does have NATPT, but that's not sufficient. I always cringe when I see such discussions hinging around what an Internet gateway box supports. The word supports is such a

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:57 PM, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: Sorry, this was in reference to an approach based on passed assumptions.  The inflection point for when multiple IPv4 addresses at an access point becomes anachronistic will occur with an IPv6 connectivity imperative driven by

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread Douglas Otis
On 6/9/10 5:57 PM, Ned Freed wrote: I note in passing that this might have played out differently had we gotten SRV record support in place for all protocols a lot sooner. But without it for HTTP in particular you're faced with the need for multiple port 80s in a lot of cases. Disagree.

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread ned+ietf
On 6/9/10 5:57 PM, Ned Freed wrote: I note in passing that this might have played out differently had we gotten SRV record support in place for all protocols a lot sooner. But without it for HTTP in particular you're faced with the need for multiple port 80s in a lot of cases.

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 01no5qt3qgkc000...@mauve.mrochek.com, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com w rites: If this is accurate, I think you need to go back and reread John Klensin's recent messages for why this scenario really isn't all that likely to unfold the way you think. Ned

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, June 11, 2010 10:17 +1000 Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 01no5qt3qgkc000...@mauve.mrochek.com, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com w rites: If this is accurate, I think you need to go back and reread John Klensin's recent messages for why this scenario really isn't all

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread Douglas Otis
On 6/10/10 3:12 PM, Ned Freed wrote: On 6/10/10 2:48 PM Douglas Otis wrote: Disagree. HTTP is a bad example, since it allows canonical names to be replaced with a name offered by clients for supporting name based virtual hosts. In other words, a single port supports thousands of

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 55562cf3cfc08c5c6da3d...@pst.jck.com, John C Klensin writes: --On Friday, June 11, 2010 10:17 +1000 Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 01no5qt3qgkc000...@mauve.mrochek.com, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com w rites: If this is accurate, I think you need to go back

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-09 Thread Douglas Otis
On 6/7/10 12:49 PM, John C Klensin wrote: My belief is that we have a serious IPv6 marketing and transition problem until and unless we can get a level of functionality for IPv6 (and, really, for IPv4/IPv6 mixtures of the sorts that Ned's notes imply) at a level of investment roughly equivalent

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-09 Thread ned+ietf
On 6/7/10 12:49 PM, John C Klensin wrote: My belief is that we have a serious IPv6 marketing and transition problem until and unless we can get a level of functionality for IPv6 (and, really, for IPv4/IPv6 mixtures of the sorts that Ned's notes imply) at a level of investment roughly

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-09 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 06/09/2010 01:19 PM, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: And so, having no other argument to make, we resort to pejoratives? Calling small business use of a small number of IPv4 addresses anachronistic doesn't change the fact that this is a widespread practice fully supported by an ample

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-09 Thread Douglas Otis
On 6/9/10 1:19 PM, Ned Freed wrote: When IPv6 is available, each device becomes accessible with unique IP addresses. A conservative approach for scarce IPv4 addresses is to associate dedicated servers/services with specific ports of a single global address, a feature supported by nearly all

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-09 Thread ned+ietf
On 06/09/2010 01:19 PM, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: And so, having no other argument to make, we resort to pejoratives? Calling small business use of a small number of IPv4 addresses anachronistic doesn't change the fact that this is a widespread practice fully supported by an

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-09 Thread ned+ietf
On 6/9/10 1:19 PM, Ned Freed wrote: When IPv6 is available, each device becomes accessible with unique IP addresses. A conservative approach for scarce IPv4 addresses is to associate dedicated servers/services with specific ports of a single global address, a feature supported by nearly all

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-07 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Sounds like you'll need to be looking up market, you're not really looking for a soho router at the point where you've got multiple external providers. This device and it's ilk represted the ipv6 functionality availble in a circa mid to late 2009 home router with a retail price of $100-$150. They

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-07 Thread ned+ietf
Alternate email client usage fail. My apologies. Ned (offlist) On 2010-06-02 07:36, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ned Freedned.fr...@mrochek.com wrote: As I've stated previously, I believe the main piece that's missing is

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-07 Thread ned+ietf
(offlist) On 2010-06-02 07:36, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ned Freedned.fr...@mrochek.com wrote: As I've stated previously, I believe the main piece that's missing is a SOHO-grade router that has full IPv6 support, 6to4 support, full IPv4/NAT/firewall

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-07 Thread ned+ietf
Sounds like you'll need to be looking up market, you're not really looking for a soho router at the point where you've got multiple external providers. Who said anything about multiple external providers? All I'm talking about is support for a small number of static IPs on a single network

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, June 06, 2010 14:39 -0700 Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: Sounds like you'll need to be looking up market, you're not really looking for a soho router at the point where you've got multiple external providers. This device and it's ilk represted the ipv6 functionality

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-03 Thread Jari Arkko
Martin, What about the IPv6 capabilities and configurability of devices that are much more difficult to configure or update and much more expensive to replace? - Game consoles used for online gaming (XBox,PSP,WII)? - Internet-capable Flatscreen-TVs - Set-Top boxes (e.g. feature-enhanced

RE: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread Yoav Nir
Nice to hear just worked in the context of IPv6. Did your router give you just an IPv6 address, or also an IPv4 address? If both, does the IPv6 address ever get anywhere on the Internet, or is it always NATted? -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread Douglas Otis
On 6/2/10 12:39 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: Nice to hear just worked in the context of IPv6. Did your router give you just an IPv6 address, or also an IPv4 address? If both, does the IPv6 address ever get anywhere on the Internet, or is it always NATted? The router appears to use RFC3056, with

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 2010-06-02 07:36, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ned Freedned.fr...@mrochek.com wrote: As I've stated previously, I believe the main piece that's missing is a SOHO-grade router that has full IPv6 support, 6to4 support, full IPv4/NAT/firewall support, plus a

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread Fred Baker
On May 30, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: 1) Branding Every technology company that has wanted to establish an infrastructure to support their product has used branding as leverage. Remember 'Novell Ready', 'Entrust Ready', 'Windows Vista Ready'? We need an Internet Next

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4c06a72c.20...@bogus.com, joel jaeggli writes: On 2010-06-02 07:36, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Ned Freedned.fr...@mrochek.com wrote: As I've stated previously, I believe the main piece that's missing is a SOHO-grade router that has full IPv6

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 2010-06-02 15:44, Mark Andrews wrote: now would people please stop on this subject, the manufacturers know how to build this stuff. The only reference to IPv6 is IPv6 Gold Does that mean that it does PD? It does not. I don't know and I'm not about to wade through the 135 page test spec

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread Martin Rex
ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: As I've stated previously, I believe the main piece that's missing is a SOHO-grade router that has full IPv6 support, 6to4 support, full IPv4/NAT/firewall support, plus a readonably intuitive GUI to administer it all. If such a product exists I continue to

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 2010-06-02 16:09, Martin Rex wrote: What about the IPv6 capabilities and configurability of devices that are much more difficult to configure or update and much more expensive to replace? - Game consoles used for online gaming (XBox,PSP,WII)? - Internet-capable Flatscreen-TVs - Set-Top

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4c06e306.3050...@bogus.com, joel jaeggli writes: On 2010-06-02 15:44, Mark Andrews wrote: now would people please stop on this subject, the manufacturers know how to build this stuff. The only reference to IPv6 is IPv6 Gold Does that mean that it does PD? It does not.

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 2010-06-02 16:40, Mark Andrews wrote: It has both dhcpv6 client and server. it makes the assumuption that if you want to assign v6 nameservers that you'll do so with stateful dhcpv6. the product is closing in on a year old so I imagine the product managers fixed the feature set in stone

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-01 Thread Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
On 30/05/2010 23:52, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote : People are not going to use IPv6 if it takes the slightest effort on their part. People are not going to switch their home networks over to IPv6 if it means a single device on the network is going to stop working. In my case it would cost me

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-01 Thread todd glassey
On 5/30/2010 3:52 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: We keep coming back to the same old problem and the same reasons we are going to hope it solves itself without having to change anything. 1) Its the wrong type of pain IPv4 exhaustion does cause problems, but not really enough problems or

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-01 Thread ned+ietf
On 30/05/2010 23:52, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote : People are not going to use IPv6 if it takes the slightest effort on their part. People are not going to switch their home networks over to IPv6 if it means a single device on the network is going to stop working. In my case it would cost

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-01 Thread Sabahattin Gucukoglu
On 1 Jun 2010, at 18:19, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: As I've stated previously, I believe the main piece that's missing is a SOHO-grade router that has full IPv6 support, 6to4 support, full IPv4/NAT/firewall support, plus a readonably intuitive GUI to administer it all. If such a product

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-01 Thread Douglas Otis
On 6/1/10 9:57 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote: On 30/05/2010 23:52, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote : People are not going to use IPv6 if it takes the slightest effort on their part. People are not going to switch their home networks over to IPv6 if it means a single device on the network

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In message aanlktilmjpietg4hybcb_pik9chxtsjekhn0r3vo2...@mail.gmail.com, Phil lip Hallam-Baker writes: We keep coming back to the same old problem and the same reasons we are going to hope it solves itself without having to change anything. 1) Its the wrong type of pain IPv4 exhaustion