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

Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
> 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.

Sorry - my response wasn't clear as I think my point was made elsewhere in
the thread - I am not interested in this aspect, but this is the aspect that
drives/motivates some ludite network admins in old, slow organisations. They
actually believe X.25 networks to be more secure than the 'public' Internet.

> 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

My point, to start again, is that organisations need to be able to rely on
an addressing scheme that is completely independent of 'ISP of the month'
that they may be using so that they can avoid try to use horrid NAT/RFC1918
hacks to talk over private (IPsec or physical) connections. It is all very
cute to talk about automatic renumbering etc. but not in this context - you
CANNOT do it, either technically or politically.

Peter