On 12 Feb 2021, at 12:41, Izaac <izaac@setec.org> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:29:42AM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
Ridiculous… TCP/IP was designed to be a peer to peer system where each endpoint was uniquely addressable whether reachable by policy or not.
I think that is a dramatic over-simplification of the IP design criteria -- as it was already met by NCP or even a single ethernet segment. But that's an aside. I recommend that you read rfc1918, with a particular focus on Section 2, because I'm about to employ its language:
When dealing at large scale, an incompetent network engineer sees a network under their control as a single enterprise. Whereas a competent network engineer recognizes that they are actually operating a federation of enterprises. They identify the seams, design an architecture which exploits them, and allocate their scarce resources appropriately.
IPv6 restores that ability and RFC-1918 is a bandaid for an obsolete protocol.
So, in your mind, IPv4 was "obsolete" in 1996 -- almost three years before IPv6 was even specified? Fascinating. I could be in no way mistaken for an IPv4/NAT apologist, but that one's new on me.
IPv4’s address space was known to be too small well before RFC1918. September 1994 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ipng-recommendation-00 -> RFC 1752 July 1995 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-cidrd-private-addr-00 -> RFC 1918 RFC 1918 was deployed as a mechanism to extend the usefulness of IPv4 until IPNG, which became IPv6, was available by reducing the address space pressure on the registries. I knew IPv4 didn’t have enough addresses in 1988 when I got my first IPv4 address allocation. Anyone with a bit of common sense could see that 4B addresses was not enough for the Earth. It was just a matter of time before it would need to be replaced.
Stop making excuses and let's fix the network
If you want to "fix the network," tolerate neither incompetence or sloth from its operators. Educate the former. Encourage the latter.
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