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Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Fri, 09 September 2016 17:36 UTC

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Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 19:36:06 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
To: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>
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Hi,

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:16:36PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 07:11:10PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:05:13PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
> > > And if those 3 implementations in flight ship on squatted code points
> > > without appropriate plans to change per IDR standardization, they've learned
> > > nothing about the foibles of what happens when you ship too early.
> > 
> > We're not talking about "too early" here.  We're talking about "5 years
> > too late" vs. "at some future point of perfection, when nobody alive today
> > cares anymore".
> 
> Not my network that crashes.  Enjoy. :-)

Actually, this is exactly the point: due to lack of a proper standard for
communities to support 4-byte-ASNs, people have to resort to various hacks
to achieve the required functionality.  *This* is where instability and
lack of sustainability comes from.

Not from shipping a simple and to the point standard that solves operational
needs in a straightforward way.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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