For those that missed the presentation, it was a real eye-opener on just how important it is for you to move forward with IPv6 before something like this actually starts getting implemented. Owen On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Todd Underwood wrote:
jon, all,
i've received several questions about the context of this mail, so i thought it would be worth posting to clear up the reference.
for those who missed it, i presented a lightning talk at nanog 49 in san francisco yesterday on some very early conceptual work on a really interesting strategy to dramatically extend the useful life of v4 prefixes. the talk is linked from: http://nanog.org/meetings/nanog49/agenda.php and i encourage people to take a look at it.
if you like the general idea (Probabilistic Assignment of Prefixes: a System for Managing and Extending Address Resources is what some people are starting to call it), i'd encourage you to take the suggestion made at the mic by mark kosters, cto of arin, and work to help refine the proposal and establish a useful policy framework around its implementation.
work is needed especially in collision domain modeling and count of resource implications for the operational overhead per prefix. experience with high flow rate instrumentation is likely to be needed in the near future as well.
i wanted to thank everyone for the kind words and suggestions after the presentation and look forward to productively exploring this idea.
cheers,
todd underwood toddunder@gmail.com