Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

[Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman at vpnc.org>]

At 5:08 PM +0200 9/15/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 15-sep-2007, at 16:51, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>
> > > > 	keys tied to IP addresses... particularly for enterprise
> > > > 	level stuff.  not so easy to update in my experience.
>
> > > 	I've always thought that practice to be STUPID.  It was
> > > 	stupid 15 years ago and it is still stupid today.
>
> > The fact that you as an individual thing it is stupid (in uppercase 
> > or lowercase) is irrelevant. Several large vendors disagree with 
> > you. Their customers have gotten used to dealing with this and do 
> > not consider it so onerous as to change to the other large vendors 
> > who use a different licensing scheme.
>
> If we can't agree that this practice is stupid, can we at least 
> agree that we can't let this impose restrictions on what we can and 
> can't do within the IETF?

Certainly. Every vendor who ties a license to an IP address has 
already had to deal with customers who change IP addresses. I doubt 
that Bill's mentioning of this practice was meant to say "therefore 
we can never do anything that would cause renumbering".

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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