[rrg] [Fwd: I-D Action:draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work-00.txt]

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 2008-10-29 08:19, Scott Brim wrote:
> On 10/28/08 3:33 AM, Olivier Bonaventure allegedly wrote:
>> I think that we should take a completely different approach.
>> I believe that the networks, small, medium or large, that are able to
>> easily renumber their addresses will have a competitive advantage in the
>> long term compared to the networks that cannot renumber because they
>> will be more agile and will adapt more easily to changes in providers
>> and so on.
> 
> Would making it easy to renumber be easier or harder than changing the
> Internet so that that didn't matter?

I can't answer that question until I fully understand (a) what's
missing to make renumbering thinkable and (b) what infrastructure changes
would be needed to make renumbering unnecessary. Point (a) is why I think
the draft is worth writing, despite Olivier's point.

On 2008-10-29 07:38, Scott Brim wrote:

>   Unfortunately for me you didn't produce a magic
> solution for the site policy change issues (Section 4.3.4).  I think
> that's the critical issue area.

Sorry, our magician's handbook didn't have a spell for that ;-)

   Brian