[156448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Ignorance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cutler James R)
Tue Sep 18 12:48:34 2012
From: Cutler James R <james.cutler@consultant.com>
In-Reply-To: <5058A36F.1090102@thebaughers.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:47:38 -0400
To: Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Jason Baugher <jason@thebaughers.com> =
wrote:
>=20
> What about network-based objects outside of our orbit? If we're =
talking about IPv6 in the long-term, I think we have to assume we'll =
have networked devices on the moon or at other locations in space.
>=20
> Jason
Practical considerations (mostly latency issues) tend to minimize =
real-time point-to-point connections in these scenarios. I would expect =
that messaging/relay gateways would play a significant role in =
Really-Wide Area Networking. This would move inter-networking largely =
to an application layer, not the network layer. Thus, worrying about =
Layer 3 addressing limits is probably moot and just a fun waste of NANOG =
list bandwidth.
James R. Cutler
james.cutler@consultant.com
