On Jun 6, 2017, at 12:48 PM, Warren Kumari <warren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Because we use a *large* amount of address space - we (currently) give
everyone a public IP address, we have multiple SSIDs / networks, etc.
ISPs would be quite unlikely to be willing to give us a big enough
block, we (often) also have multiple providers, etc. We would also
need to renumber all of our infrastructure, redo DNS, etc.
Please understand when I say this that I am not proposing an unfunded mandate on the backs of volunteers here, but (a) it doesn't seem to me that we need to continue providing everyone with a routable IPv4 address, and (b) if renumbering is that hard, maybe that's worth thinking about, because renumbering is not generally all that hard, and we have developed a lot of technology in the IETF to _make_ it not hard.
E.g., if everything is numbered using IPv6, and the reason it needs numbered is so that it can be managed, wouldn't a ULA prefix for numbering managed devices solve that problem? Or are we still managing them using stone knives and IPv4?
Apparently that's not solving the problem, though. Google maps always seems to redirect me to the previous country, every IETF. I think this is more of an operational problem than not having a routable IPv4 address would be—I don't assume when I'm traveling that I will have a routable IPv4 address. But, much of the issue is location being tied to the MAC address of
the APs, not just the source IP. There are lots of geo providers, and
they all need to be updated, etc.
Can't APs have their user-facing MAC addresses changed/randomized? Again, I realize that that potentially another unfunded mandate, but I'm just asking whether this is something that can be done, not saying you should do it.
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