On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:05:22PM +0300, Jari Arkko wrote: > David, > > > We had an opportunity to fix that, but we blew it. > > I think everyone agrees that having that flexibility > (ease of renumbering, no routing explosion in the > core etc) would be good. > > But I would suggest that instead of playing the > "what if" or "I told you so" games, we collectively > focus on solving the problem. And getting it solved > means having a solution that actually works, has all > the little details (like what the security is etc) worked > out, fits with the incentives that the various players > have, and so on. > > And we have a place for that work to happen in the > IRTF. There's a lot of promising work, but they > don't have a final solution yet; the details do matter > (and I suspect that they also mattered back at the > time IPv6 was being designed). > > Jari the old PIER wg had some useful ideas on the scope fo the renumbering problem... if the IRTF wants to revisit the problem that might be a good place to start. --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf