[ipv6-wg] Simulation of the future IPv4 world at RIPE meetings?

start with 3. that is the real life scenario...

Marc.

Shane Kerr a écrit :
> All,
> 
> Perhaps we should begin preparing ourselves for the future IPv4 world by
> simulating various levels of IPv4 exhaustion at future RIPE meetings?
> 
> I can imagine a few stages:
> 
>      1. We can no longer give public IPv4 addresses to attendees. RFC
>         1918 for everyone, but with 1:1 mapping to public addresses.
>      2. The entire meeting gets NAT'ed to a single /24. 
>      3. The entire meeting gets NAT'ed to a single IP address.
> 
> Of course, this is the easy side. People are already accustomed to
> living behind NAT with their laptops. (They might be a little more
> annoyed when Google Maps won't work because there aren't enough ports to
> handle all the simultaneous open connections.)
> 
> To be fair, we should also disable IPv4 for access to the meeting
> itself, as this is the first problem that new entrants to the Internet
> will have. But this is a huge burden on RIPE NCC staff and remote
> participants, so this will have to wait. :)
> 
> --
> Shane