[134666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NIST IPv6 document
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Jan 9 00:08:22 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110109113938.0502b3b2@opy.nosense.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 21:03:43 -0800
To: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Cc: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>, nanog@nanog.org,
Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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> If you define a new protocol version as one that means devices with
> older protocol generations of firmware/software may not interoperate
> reliably with devices with new protocol generations of
> firmware/software, then IPv4 as we know it today is probably at least
> "IPv7" - address classes was a generational change requiring
> software/firmware updates (compare addressing in rfc760 verses rfc791),
> as was classful+subnets and then CIDR.
>
> Regards,
> Mark.
I think it's defined, instead, in terms of incompatible changes to the
content of the packet header.
Owen
