At 5:08 PM +0200 9/15/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 15-sep-2007, at 16:51, Paul Hoffman wrote:
keys tied to IP addresses... particularly for enterprise
level stuff. not so easy to update in my experience.
I've always thought that practice to be STUPID. It was
stupid 15 years ago and it is still stupid today.
The fact that you as an individual thing it is stupid (in uppercase
or lowercase) is irrelevant. Several large vendors disagree with
you. Their customers have gotten used to dealing with this and do
not consider it so onerous as to change to the other large vendors
who use a different licensing scheme.
If we can't agree that this practice is stupid, can we at least
agree that we can't let this impose restrictions on what we can and
can't do within the IETF?
Certainly. Every vendor who ties a license to an IP address has
already had to deal with customers who change IP addresses. I doubt
that Bill's mentioning of this practice was meant to say "therefore
we can never do anything that would cause renumbering".
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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