> On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:08:30AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > interestingly, some software vendors ship w/ license > > > 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. Yes > > I've had to renumber sites with keys tied to IP addresses. > > stupid or not, it exists and is not ammenable to automation. Why isn't it? It's just one more message for the management station to push out. > > > David is correct, scale does have its own set of renumbering > > > problems. While i believe you, i think your confidence > > > is based on some naieve assumptions. > > > > I'm not saying scale doesn't have problems. Automation > > however is the solution to those problems. That's why > > management stations were invented. > > automation can augment renumbering events, but until we > have a fundamental change in architecture, renumbering will require > human intervention and will always be disruptive. It doesn't take a change in architecture. We have the technology today to remove the need to tie anything to specific IP addresses. It just requires the willingness to use it. Mark > --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). -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf