Subject: [rrg] [Fwd: New mailing list [Re: Starting some discussion on renumbering]]

From: Brian E Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:46:36 +1300

See below, as the idea for this topic came out of some RRG discussion.
This new list, and any subsequent IETF work, will of course not
be research as such and will be running as an IETF-style activity.

    Brian

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New mailing list [Re: Starting some discussion on renumbering]
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:42:18 +1300
From: Brian E Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Organization: University of Auckland
To: Internet Area Mailing List <[email-masked]>

The [email-masked] mailing list now exists. This list is for
discussion of how to improve IP address renumbering mechanisms.

https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/renum to subscribe.

Non-member postings are moderated for spam protection.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 2010-11-11 20:55, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> RFC 5887 (Renumbering still needs work) was published in May 2010.
> 
> I will assume that you've read it. It isn't a philosophical
> document; it is meant to be technical.
> 
> So, the problem is that in any future scenario, site renumbering
> will sometimes be needed, but remains very hard and impractical
> for most sites. RFC 5887 justifies these statements.
> 
> What are we going to do about it?
> - Is IPv4 site renumbering a lost cause?
> - Should we focus entirely on IPv6? That is probably easier in several
>   ways (new deployment for most sites, not constrained by a shortage
>   of prefixes)
> - We need a gap analysis. Is the gap analysis in RFC 5887 sufficient?
> - In any case we should focus on what is doable, and put other problems
>   on the "too hard" pile.
> 
...
> Remember that the cut-off for BOF requests for IETF 80 will be somewhere
> round the end of January. Not much time...
>