Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

[John Gilmore <gnu () toad com>]

Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com> wrote:
> > Then it was "what can we do with what we can afford" now it's more
> > like "What can we do with what we have (or can actually get)"?
>
> Like, working on better software...

Like, deploying the other 300 million IPv4 addresses that are currently
lying around unused.  They remain formally unused due to three
interlocking supply chain problems: at IETF, ICANN, and vendors.  IETF's
is caused by a "we must force everyone to abandon trailing edge
technology" attitude.  ICANN's is because nobody is sure how to allocate
~$15B worth of end-user value into a calcified IP address market
dominated by government-created regional monopolies doing allocation by
fiat.

Vendors have leapfrogged the IETF and ICANN processes, and most have
deployed the key one-line software patches needed to fully enable these
addresses in OS's and routers.  Microsoft is the only major vendor
seemingly committed to never doing so.  Our project continues to track
progress in this area, and test and document compatability.

        John
        IPv4 Unicast Extensions Project