On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 06:54:58PM +0200, Roger Jorgensen wrote:
IPv6 has made it possible to renumber the network almost automatically. it seems possible to make that change without a "flag day" and an outage. however, the tools are mostly *NOT* there for similarly easy renumbering of router ACLs and firewall configs and DNS, so as the size of the network increases, large organizations are saying there is still a significant cost to renumbering (at this time...). one can only hope that appropriate tools will be developed to make full renumbering reasonably painless. exactly! Let's use the time creatig the tools, create some standards and guidelines on HOWTO renumber instead of spending time reduing the same mistakes done in IPv4. We now have the change to save ourself from alot of trouble ~10-15years into the future...
Your wording implies PI was a mistake in IPv4. I think it is one of the reasons for its success, not a mistake. Nils