Re: IPv10 (Temp. name IPmix) (draft-omar-ipv10-00.txt).

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demonetize IPv4 addresses and the problem will solve itself.  there is 
financial inertia on the side of retaining v4 only stack networks.

On Thu, 29 Dec 2016, Randy Bush wrote:

>> Finally, this proposal does nothing to solve the problem it
>> identifies, legacy IPv4 hosts in the enterprise environment that will
>> not migrate. There appears to be an unstated assumption that
>> administrators of legacy hosts will make the changes necessary for
>> this inconsistent and underspecified proposal, despite the
>> demonstrated fact that they are unwilling to make the well documented
>> changes to deploy IPv6 because they simply refuse to make a change, or
>> to learn something new.
>
> exactly.  enterprises have een controllong their environments and
> permissions across it based on ip assignment via dhcp for a few
> decades.  and ipv4 nat is a much easier and cheaper way to get their
> job done than trying to deal with ipv6.
>
> in general, i do not find it a very viable business strategy to tell
> my customers to do things they just do not want to do.  pushing water
> uphill.  and we have been so good at denial for a decades.
>
> we blamed the operators.  we blamed the cpe vendors.  we blamed the
> router vendors.  and now we blame the users.  it's always someone
> else's fault.
>
> randy
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