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Re: "class E" (was: Consensus Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request)

2011-12-05 15:39:54

In message <0780B9D75D1CE23F15B5ABE4(_at_)PST(_dot_)JCK(_dot_)COM>, John C 
Klensin writes:
--On Monday, December 05, 2011 11:54 -0800 David Conrad
<drc(_at_)virtualized(_dot_)org> wrote:

Bob,

On Dec 5, 2011, at 11:36 AM, Bob Hinden wrote:
So a CGN deployment is a new deployment and the ISPs choosing
to do this could make sure that their customers CPE can
support class E addresses, upgrade the CPE firmware,

I think the ISPs are saying that there is a non-trivial base
of deployed non-upgradable CPE out there now.

or send them new CPE.  

This assumes either (a) the ISP is responsible for the CPE
and/or (b) the ISP is willing to pay for this.  I'm guessing
these assumptions aren't valid.  

Right.  But, unless there is CPE gear out there that is so
locked into a particular 1918 (or other) address range that it
can't use anything else internally (I haven't heard of such
equipment, but maybe it is out there), this is a much stronger
argument for a "dear customer, either renumber or upgrade your
hardware" position than for an allocation that will force that
"renumber or upgrade" position as soon as, e.g., ISPs merge or
discover a need for an extra layer or CGN.

   john

It's not that the CPE's can't renumber.  The ISP are already using
RFC 1918, in good faith, internally to talk to the management
interfaces of modems so using RFC 1918 is forcing the ISP's to
renumber out of whichever RFC 1918 block that is choosen for this
purpose.  Customers that are using RFC 1918 addresses, in good
faith, are being force to renumber because the IETF is changing the
rules retrospectively.  Using a RFC 1918 block for this purpose
will also force companies to stop using this block internally as
it will break routing over VPNs to addresses in this block.

Ask everyone everywhere that is using this block, in good faith,
for some purpose other than supporting addresses behind a CGN to
renumber out of this block of RFC 1918 addresss which is now being
re-purposed 16 years after it was allocated.

Mark
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