--On onsdag, mars 26, 2003 17:40:23 -0800 David Conrad
<david(_dot_)conrad(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com> wrote:
Ted,
On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Ted Hardie wrote:
If you were using some of an allocated portion as routable addresses
and some as unrouted addresses, you might be forced to change the
unrouted addresses as a consequences of choosing someone new to carry
the traffic from the routed portions of your network. That would carry
the same pain of renumbering it always does.
Which, of course, implies NAT ("where's there's pain, there's NAT"? :-)).
the more general aphorism is probably
where there's pain
people want painkillers
painkillers don't cure the cause of pain
painkillers have side effects
not that this helps evaluate the issue (much); my personal take (which is
largely irrelevant to this list) is that IPv6 applications will be cheaper
and simpler when the code does not have to treat some addresses differently
from others; the fewer special cases, the better.
Special cases are pain; in this case, we were able to eliminate one source
of this pain.
In my opinion, of course.
Harald