[75688] in North American Network Operators' Group
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.