Dear Tom:

1) "... for various technical reasons , ...":  Please give a couple
examples, and be specific preferably using expressions that colleagues
on this forum can understand.

Thanks,


Abe (2022-11-21 12:29 EST)




On 2022-11-21 10:44, Tom Beecher wrote:
>
>     1) "... Africa ... They don’t really have a lot of alternatives. ...":
>     Actually, there is, simple and in plain sight. Please have a look
>     at the
>     below IETF Draft:
>
>     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chen-ati-adaptive-ipv4-address-space
>
>
> For the benefit of anyone who may not understand, this is not an
> 'alternative'. This is an idea that was initially proposed by the
> authors almost exactly 6 years ago. It's received almost no interest
> from anyone involved in internet standards, and for various technical
> reasons , likely never will.
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 10:52 PM Abraham Y. Chen <aychen@avinta.com>
> wrote:
>
>     Dear Owen:
>
>     1) "... Africa ... They don’t really have a lot of alternatives.
>     ...":
>     Actually, there is, simple and in plain sight. Please have a look
>     at the
>     below IETF Draft:
>
>     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chen-ati-adaptive-ipv4-address-space
>
>     2)  If this looks a bit too technical due to the nature of such a
>     document, there is a distilled version that provides a bird-eye's
>     view
>     of the solution:
>
>     https://www.avinta.com/phoenix-1/home/RevampTheInternet.pdf
>
>     3)  All of the above can start from making use of the 240/4
>     netblock as
>     a reusable (by region / country) unicast IP address resources that
>     could
>     be accomplished by as simple as commenting out one line of the
>     existing
>     network router program code. I will be glad to go into the
>     specifics if
>     you can bring their attention to this almost mystic topic.
>
>     Regards,
>
>
>     Abe (2022-11-19 22:50 EST)
>
>
>     On 2022-11-18 18:20, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
>     >
>     >> On Nov 18, 2022, at 03:44, Joe Maimon <jmaimon@jmaimon.com> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Mark Tinka wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>> On 11/17/22 19:55, Joe Maimon wrote:
>     >>>
>     >>>> You could instead use a /31.
>     >>> We could, but many of our DIA customers have all manner of
>     CPE's that may or may not support this. Having unique designs per
>     customer does not scale well.
>     >> its almost 2023. /31 support is easily mandatory. You should
>     make it mandatory.
>     > Much of Africa in 2023 runs on what the US put into the resale
>     market in the late 1990s, tragically.
>     >
>     >> Its 2023, your folk should be able to handle addressing more
>     advanced than from the 90s. And your betting the future on IPv6?
>     > They don’t really have a lot of alternatives.
>     >
>     >>> To be honest, we'll keep using IPv4 for as long as we have it,
>     and for as long as we can get it from AFRINIC. But it's not where
>     we are betting the farm - that is for IPv6.
>     > And yet you wonder why I consider AFRINIC’s artificial extension
>     of the free pool through draconian austerity measures to be a
>     global problem?
>     >
>     >> Its on Afrinic to try and preserve their pool if they wish to
>     by doing things such as getting it across that progress in
>     addressing efficiency is an important consideration in fulfilling
>     requests for additional resources.
>     > Instead of this, they’re mostly ignoring policy, implementing
>     draconian restrictions on people getting space from the free pool,
>     and buying into various forms of reality avoidance.
>     >
>     >> But see the crux above. If your RiR isnt frowning on such
>     behavior then its poor strategy to implement it.
>     > So far, AFRINIC has given a complete pass to Tinka’s
>     organization and their documented excessive unused address space
>     despite policy that prohibits them from doing so. However, AFRINIC
>     management and board seem to have extreme difficulty with reading
>     their governing documents in anything resembling a logical
>     interpretation.
>     >
>     > Owen
>     >
>
>
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