Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:27:21PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways that people have not envisioned them being used before. Given a surplus of any resource, people find creative ways of using it. Encoding high-resolution geographic

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Eugen Leitl Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:18 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:27:21PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: I have a feeling that IP addresses will now be used in ways

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly relevant or convincing

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: I think it's generally a bad idea. /48 is the design architecture for IPv6. It allows for significant innovation in the SOHO arena that we haven't accounted for in some of our current thinking. Q:

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 5:45 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Oct 18, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: sth...@nethelp.no writes: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/18/2010 5:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: sth...@nethelp.no writes: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:25 PM, David Conrad wrote: RS, On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: If we were to give a /48 to every human on the face of the planet, we would use about .25 of the total available IPv6 address space. Sure. I once did the math that suggested

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 10:53 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 7:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have 99.9% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
George Bonser gbon...@seven.com writes: You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have 99.9% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than the paltry 99.9975% that might have been their

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Ben Butler
proves the fallacy of needing to conserve IPv6 address space Ben -Original Message- From: Robert E. Seastrom [mailto:r...@seastrom.com] Sent: 19 October 2010 11:53 To: George Bonser Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption George Bonser gbon

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Lee
On 10/19/10, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Oct 18, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Ben Butler
Message- From: Ben Butler [mailto:ben.but...@c2internet.net] Sent: 19 October 2010 12:26 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption Hi, Another way of looking at it would be what would the world population need to be in order to exhaust all of the space v6 based

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: There are advantages to being able to use 16 bits to build various forms of hierarchical topology on a dynamic basis within a SOHO environment. If we reduce that to 8 bits, we will block innovations that are currently underway in this space. Can you

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Dan White
On 18/10/10 19:24 -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/18/2010 5:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: sth...@nethelp.no writes: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly relevant

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/19/2010 4:29 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: No... ARIN hands out a MINIMUM /32. A medium sized ISP should be asking for larger. ME: I really need larger space ARIN: We don't see how you can justify it, and we hardly ever give larger than /32 THE END or, if you have larger POPs, start

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/19/2010 6:24 AM, Dan White wrote: But I still feel strongly that a /48 assignment model for residential customers is right for our environment. Perfectly reasonable. If you've analyzed your situation and come to that conclusion who am I to argue? Please note, I'm NOT saying, You must

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Schiller, Heather A (HeatherSkanks)
-Original Message- From: Jack Bates [mailto:jba...@brightok.net] Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 5:12 PM To: Franck Martin Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption On 10/18/2010 3:51 PM, Franck Martin wrote: So they can't run their own services from home

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
To: George Bonser Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption George Bonser gbon...@seven.com writes: You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have 99.9% of IPv6

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: There are advantages to being able to use 16 bits to build various forms of hierarchical topology on a dynamic basis within a SOHO environment. If we reduce that to 8 bits, we will block innovations that

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/19/2010 11:53 AM, Schiller, Heather A (HeatherSkanks) wrote: HS: Where customers = spammers? The only folks I have seen ask to do 'address rotation' have either been spammers or copyright monitoring services. I have never seen a request for 'address rotation' to protect a

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/19/2010 4:29 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: No... ARIN hands out a MINIMUM /32. A medium sized ISP should be asking for larger. ME: I really need larger space ARIN: We don't see how you can justify it, and we hardly ever give larger than

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-19 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/19/2010 1:21 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: When did you ask? If it was more than 6 months ago, then, I would suggest asking again. If it was less than 6 months ago, can you send me any or all of the correspondence so I can address it with Leslie and try and get whatever training issues remain

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Jens Link
Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net writes: Eric Vyncke's IPv6 security book is definitely worthwhile, http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587055945 A good companion to Eric's book is Deploying IPv6 Networks http://www.ciscopress.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=1587052105

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Tony Hain
: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 1:59 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption Thanks everyone who responded. This list is such a valuable wealth of information. Apparently I was wrong about the /64 as that should

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Randy Carpenter
a /32, and if they got one either trade it in or put it in a lab and get a REAL block. Tony -Original Message- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 1:59 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Tony Hain wrote: This 'get a /32' BAD ADVICE has got to stop. There are way too many people trying to force fit their customers into a block that is intended for a start-up with ZERO customers. +1 Develop a plan for /48 per customer, then go to ARIN and get

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Joel Jaeggli
To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption Thanks everyone who responded. This list is such a valuable wealth of information. Apparently I was wrong about the /64 as that should be /32 so thanks for that correction Thanks again especially on a Saturday weekend

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/18/2010 11:47 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote: Unfortunately, it is not as easy as that in practice. I recently worked with a customer that has ~60,000 customers currently. We tried to get a larger block, but were denied. ARIN said they would only issue a /32, unless immediate usage could be

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/18/2010 11:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: More accurately... A /48 per customer end-site... Define end0-site. Residential customers, for example, don't need more than a /56. More would just be obscene. Most small businesses don't need more than a /56 either, especially if you are breaking

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/18/10 10:10 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 11:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: More accurately... A /48 per customer end-site... Define end0-site. Residential customers, for example, don't need more than a /56. This is a matter of opinion not gospel. larger, this size, or smaller

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Owen DeLong
a /32, and if they got one either trade it in or put it in a lab and get a REAL block. Tony -Original Message- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon@brandontek.com] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 1:59 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 11:47 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote: Unfortunately, it is not as easy as that in practice. I recently worked with a customer that has ~60,000 customers currently. We tried to get a larger block, but were denied. ARIN said they

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Owen DeLong
, October 16, 2010 1:59 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption Thanks everyone who responded. This list is such a valuable wealth of information. Apparently I was wrong about the /64 as that should be /32 so thanks for that correction Thanks again

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 10/18/2010 11:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: More accurately... A /48 per customer end-site... Define end0-site. Residential customers, for example, don't need more than a /56. More would just be obscene. Most small businesses don't need

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread David Conrad
On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote: ARIN does reservations (unsure at what length, but at least down to /31). Do they still do that? Back when I was at IANA, one of the justifications the RIRs gave for the /12s they received was that they were going to be using the 'bisection'

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread John Curran
On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:18 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Oct 18, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Jack Bates wrote: ARIN does reservations (unsure at what length, but at least down to /31). Do they still do that? Back when I was at IANA, one of the justifications the RIRs gave for the /12s they received was

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 18, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: The customers should get /48s. The /56 guideline is merely that and only for the smallest of sites. It's also subsequently turned out to be bad advice. Can you elaborate on why /56 is bad advice and

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Randy Carpenter
John, Can you tell us at what degree the bisection stops? i.e. does it keep going until there are no spaces left, or will you leave some space in between each one to leave some room for future needs for orgs that already have allocations? -Randy -- | Randy Carpenter | Vice President, IT

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Randy Carpenter
I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their nearest neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a little close considering there is a lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and there doesn't seem to be consensus yet. For these customers, I don't think they will need more

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly relevant or convincing argument. We're doing /56 for residential users, and have

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 10/18/10 12:42 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their nearest neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a little close considering there is a lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and there doesn't seem to be consensus yet. For these

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Franck Martin
: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, 19 October, 2010 8:10:35 AM Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption On 10/18/2010 1:20 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Owen DeLong
Generally the older allocations would be left in place until deprecated by attrition. At least that's what I plan to advocate in my policy proposal. Owen Sent from my iPad On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Randy Carpenter rcar...@network1.net wrote: I have a few customers whose allocations

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/18/2010 3:51 PM, Franck Martin wrote: So they can't run their own services from home and have to request premium connectivity from you? Beside the IPv4 scarcity mentality we have the Telco mentality to fight... Happy days still ahead... Of course they can run their own services at

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Doug Barton
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: I think it's generally a bad idea. /48 is the design architecture for IPv6. It allows for significant innovation in the SOHO arena that we haven't accounted for in some of our current thinking. Q: Why are /48s everywhere a good idea? A:

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/18/2010 14:39, Doug Barton wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: I think it's generally a bad idea. /48 is the design architecture for IPv6. It allows for significant innovation in the SOHO arena that we haven't accounted for in some of our current thinking. Q:Why are

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010, Owen DeLong wrote: I think it's generally a bad idea. /48 is the design architecture for IPv6. It allows for significant innovation in the SOHO arena that we haven't accounted for in

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread John Curran
On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote: I have a few customers whose allocations are /29 away from their nearest neighbor (half a nibble). That seems a little close considering there is a lot of talk about doing nibble boundaries, and there doesn't seem to be consensus yet.

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
sth...@nethelp.no writes: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly relevant or convincing argument. We're doing /56 for residential users, and have no plans to change

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption - Sparse IPv6 allocation

2010-10-18 Thread Randy Carpenter
John, Thank you very much. That clarification helps out quite a bit. -Randy -- | Randy Carpenter | Vice President, IT Services | Red Hat Certified Engineer | First Network Group, Inc. | (419)739-9240, x1 - Original Message - On Oct 18, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Randy Carpenter wrote:

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Oct 18, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: sth...@nethelp.no writes: I still haven't seen any good argument for why residential users need /48s. No, I don't think that makes all the address assignments the same size is a particularly relevant or convincing argument. We're

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv writes: It makes a bigger difference if everyone starts using 6RD - to give out a /48 effectively requires a /16, and the number of /16s is by no means approximately infinite. Don't I know it! Poorly designed protocol, but what're we gonna do? I was of

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread David Conrad
RS, On Oct 18, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: If we were to give a /48 to every human on the face of the planet, we would use about .25 of the total available IPv6 address space. Sure. I once did the math that suggested that even if you multiplied the current IPv4

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 35804bc3-9efe-4ce4-b13a-f2e15c420...@americafree.tv, Marshall Euba nks writes: It makes a bigger difference if everyone starts using 6RD - to give out = a /48 effectively=20 requires a /16, and the number of /16s is by no means approximately = infinite.=20 Regards Marshall

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread George Bonser
-Original Message- From: Robert E. Seastrom Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 5:17 PM To: sth...@nethelp.no Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our children will surely be grateful

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-18 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/18/2010 7:16 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: You are to be commended for your leadership in conserving space. Our children will surely be grateful that thanks to your efforts they have 99.9% of IPv6 space left to work with rather than the paltry 99.9975% that might have been their

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-17 Thread Owen DeLong
different opinions. Owen - Original Message - From: Brandon Kim brandon@brandontek.com To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, 17 October, 2010 8:58:57 AM Subject: RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption Thanks everyone who responded. This list is such a valuable wealth of information

Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-16 Thread Brandon Kim
Since we are on the topic of IPv6. I'd like to know if anyone has books/articles they recommend on fully understanding IPv6 adoption in the work place. I will need to contact ARIN shortly to request a v6 block. I'm assuming I would be asking for a /64 being an ISP. But I'd like to read up as

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-16 Thread Owen DeLong
On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Since we are on the topic of IPv6. I'd like to know if anyone has books/articles they recommend on fully understanding IPv6 adoption in the work place. I will need to contact ARIN shortly to request a v6 block. I'm assuming I would be

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-16 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Joel's widget number 2 On Oct 16, 2010, at 8:36, Brandon Kim brandon@brandontek.com wrote: Since we are on the topic of IPv6. I'd like to know if anyone has books/articles they recommend on fully understanding IPv6 adoption in the work place. I will need to contact ARIN shortly to

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-16 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Oct 16, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Then move on to the Internet which as with most things is where the most cuurent if not helpful information resides. Eric Vyncke's IPv6 security book is definitely worthwhile, as well, in combination with Schudel Smith's infrastructure

RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-16 Thread Brandon Kim
2010 16:09:43 + Subject: Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption On Oct 16, 2010, at 10:56 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Then move on to the Internet which as with most things is where the most cuurent if not helpful information resides. Eric Vyncke's IPv6 security book is definitely

Re: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption

2010-10-16 Thread Franck Martin
@brandontek.com To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sunday, 17 October, 2010 8:58:57 AM Subject: RE: Definitive Guide to IPv6 adoption Thanks everyone who responded. This list is such a valuable wealth of information. Apparently I was wrong about the /64 as that should be /32 so thanks for that correction