On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:00:09 -0500 (EST), Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > *IPv6 only exists because of a previous round of FUD about > > > IPv4 address exhaustion* - one spread by the proponents of > > > yet another protocol that was going to "replace" IPv4 - i.e. > > > CLNP. > > Noel, this assertion is just plain wrong. > > > So what was Kobe and the ensuing Boston Tea party about, then? You are confusing a mis-handling of making a decision with the instigating cause for the effort that involved that decision. Kobe came roughly a year after work was done on considering the problem of rapidly depleting address space availability. There was plenty of basis for the concern about address space. And CLNP was not proposed until well into that process. Kobe was the culmination of a protracted process of disconnection between the IAB and the rest of the community. (And for what it's worth, the parallels with the current disconnect between the community and the iesg/iab are pretty striking.) That CLNP advocates controlled that later decision process is significant but not in terms of the core technical problem that was being addressed. > Look, I'm not saying there wasn't concern about address space > usage rates, and eventual exhaustion - clearly there was. you attributed the effrort to a CLNP consipracy. That's a pretty silly assessment, no matter how serious and damaging the CLNP error actually was. > However, my perception was that the IPng effort was started in > response to concerns raised by backers of CLNP, who did so in an we had a lot of OSI types involved with the IAB at that point, so there is some guilt-by-association that accounts for your erroneous perception, in my opinion. But there were plenty of non-OSI folk also concerned about address depletion. > > the market found a way to route around our non-responsiveness. > > ... > > We would probably have had to learn to live with NATs in any > > case > > > This I actually agree with, but with a slightly different spin: I > think that even if we had written an IPng spec overnight, the > market would almost certainly still have gone with IPv4+NAT; just > less overall hassle, plus the *other* reasons people deploy NAT > (which you list). wow. i think we agree about that, too. I think that the leaf-network admin conveniences permitted by NATs has long been ignored by the IETF community. In general, we have architecturally ignored too many of the boundary issues between independent environments. And I really like the use of the term "tussle" points to refer to these; it strikes me as a really key perspective on their role. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking +1.408.246.8253 dcrocker a t ... www.brandenburg.com _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf