I'm doing a presentation and white paper to convince a bunch
of people that network addressing is one of (if not the
most) important aspect of network design and management. The
goal is to convince them that we need a plan, which will
probably require them to do some renumbering.
I'm looking for a couple of good quotes to include in the
presentation. Anyone got some good ones from some
Internet/network luminaries? Something to confirm the
importance of a generally boring topic.
:I'm doing a presentation and white paper to convince a bunch
:of people that network addressing is one of (if not the
:most) important aspect of network design and management. The
:goal is to convince them that we need a plan, which will
:probably require them to do some renumbering.
I am not a network luminary, however, I had to explain the
importance of DNS, particularly reverse lookups to an alleged
network architect the other day. It went something like:
"Network numbering and name resolution must be implemented in a way
that meaningfully represents the connection between a network
connected device and its business function."
This doesn't address routing, scalability, or any of the other issues
in network numbering, but as someone whose job it is to track down
misbehaving hosts, this kind of meaningful information is critical.
* it never mentions RFC 1219,
* it mentions IPv6 in a few words, without any practical considerations,
* it explains the old classfull addressing first, instead of talking CIDR
right from the beginning.
Well, like I said ... it's been referenced since at least 2.7 (3 years ago or
more) and I'm not sure how applicable it may be. I'm pretty sure the paper
was written before IPv6 was much more than a lab experiment. It _was_ useful
to me, but I was familiar with CIDR before I read the paper, so ...
For those with no prior experience in IP addressing, it can provide a nice
bit of historical background. While classful addressing may be passe, knowing
one's history never hurts.
For those with no prior experience in IP addressing, it can provide a nice
bit of historical background. While classful addressing may be passe,
knowing one's history never hurts.
especially as we see echos of mistakes past being made in the v6 model,
assigning large blocks, /64 point-to-point-links (ever had to untangle
an old /24 p2p network caused by rip?), ...
I'm pretty sure the paper