renumbering (was: 6BONE AUP)

[Perry E. Metzger]

Alain Durand <Alain.Durand@imag.fr> writes:
> At 11:19 17/02/99 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >We might want to try running "fire drills" on renumbering in the
> >6bone in order to see what breaks and what gets to be too painful
> >without fixes if one renumbers regularly.
> 
> We actualy went through a global renumbering session on the 6bone once,
> when we moved from 5F RFC1897 addresses to the new aggregated 3FFE ones.
> 
> Transiting my site was not that big a deal. The main issue was to convince
> people running 6bone leaf sites to do the job.
> The overall process took more than 3 months at the time.
> 
> In the RIPE draft paper about IPv6 address allocation, they specify
> that you will have 3 months to renumber.

In practice, if you have three months, the tools themselves have to
make it possible for someone to accomplish the job in a couple of days 
because they won't, in practice, do much until the last possible
minute.

Renumbering semi-frequently on the 6bone would probably encourage us
to make the tools better and to stop thinking of IP addresses as
stable and permanent. (Look at the world's ntp.conf files if you want
to see where that leads...)

Perry