[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing

>> Well, you could also argue that what Peter is trying to do is not what
>> the intent of IPv6 is at all. The intent of IPv6 is that everyone can
>> use public address space and we could get some interesting services
>> working. That was ofcourse until the "let's copy RFC1918 into IPv6 and
>> launch site-locals which  preferably are globally unique" mob took
>> over....sarcastic? me? never...
>
> Sorry, but am I missing something ? It has been hard enough for some 
> of us
> to slowly push large corporations away from requiring (companies like) 
> us to
> use X.25 over leased lines to using IPsec etc. Trying to mandate those

I won't argue with you here.

> people use publicly routeable IP space for what they consider 
> 'confidential'
> traffic is a non starter.

Problem is that site-locals and/or RFC1918 won't make your data more 
secure or more confidential. Driving this fact through will be as much 
of a challenge as converting from X.25.

The same people arguing for private addresses are also slowly realizing 
that they are missing a number of applications that others are using to 
lower costs and gain in technical advancement. Some of these people 
argue that the solution is to either make private addresses globally 
unique or require that applications developed in the IETF must support 
private addresses. This complexity will cost money, which is a fact 
that many fail to realize. IPv6 would have given us the option to start 
over, make a cleaner and cheaper design that is easier to maintain. 
Sadly we seem to be moving in the other direction.

- kurtis -