[59116] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sun Jun 15 18:48:33 2003
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 15:47:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <GPEOJKGHAMKFIOMAGMDIOEIKOJAB.deepak@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Well, since adding a simple option to IPv4 header would solve all address
space problems w/o any need to change core routing infrastructure (unlike
introduding v6) - I see little need to go for an entirely new L3 protocol.
--vadim
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Deepak Jain wrote:
> 1) Is IPV4 approaching an addressing limitation?
> 2) Does IPV6 provide a significant buffer of new addresses (given current
> allocation policies) the way
> IPV4 did when it was new?
>
> If (1 & 2) => IPV6 is good
> If (1 | 2) => undefined
> If !(1 & 2) => who cares?
