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

On Thursday 24 September 2009 15:04:20 Shane Kerr wrote:
> 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.)
>

If a /24 is used for NAT, considering the size of RIPE meetings, I guess 
nobody will notice anything inconvenient.

> 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. :)
>

It would be interesting to observe the frustration this will cause to the 
actual participants, apart from the work load and burden on the RIPE NCC 
staff :)

Kostas  

> --
> Shane