[151301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Thu Mar 15 09:59:43 2012
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:58:25 +0100
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4F61E726.3060606@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 09:57:10PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> >> That's one reason why we should stay away from IPv6.
> >
> > What prevents you from using
> > http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html
> > with IPv6?
>
> Though I didn't paid $32 to read the full paper, it's like
> a proposal of geography based addressing.
You can access the free full text at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1009.0267v2.pdf
> So, I should ask what prevents you from using it with IPv4?
Because IPv4 will be legacy by the time something like this lands,
and because IPv6 needs more bits/route so more pain there.
