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Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Nov 20 20:49:01 2004

From: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Message from Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> 
	of "Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:14:01 EST."
	<20041120221401.GA90840@pit.databus.com> 
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 01:48:09 +0000
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> How much would it add to the pain of the v4-v6 transition, to just bite
> the bullet and do tcp-sctp at the same time?  I'd sure rather be a
> network troubleshooter going through that than living with NAT forever.

it's the delta between the finite and the infinite.  sctp requires a flag
day whereas nat can be deployed incrementally.  sctp isn't going to happen,
at least not on the scale that nat has happened or that ipv6 will happen.

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