On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:20:55PM -0800, Leo Vegoda wrote:
But seriously, we will be living in this ugly world not long from now, whether we like it or not. Why not try it out before it will be forced on us?
I agree with this statement. I think there is real value in experiencing the kinds of problems we are likely to see when the IPv4 address space has been fully allocated and further network growth cannot use unique IPv4 addresses. Having an optional CGN-style network to see what works and what needs to be improved would be genuinely useful.
At the beginning of this thread, it was stated that the RIPE meeting network is not to be treated as an experiment or testbed.
Indeed. That's why I included the word "optional". Leo