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

[Scott Brim]

On 10/28/08 1:30 PM, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote:
> 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.

I see two ways to make renumbering unnecessary: (1) What Lixia calls
"separation" (map-and-encap or ubiquitous translation) or (2) GSE.  As
for making renumbering thinkable, I believe the critical issue is:

> 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

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