[75695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Nov 20 23:39:30 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 21 Nov 2004 04:38:59 +0000
In-Reply-To: <04db01c4cf7e$0e6dc3c0$6801a8c0@stephen>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> It seems easier to try to back-port SCTP's multihoming features to TCP
> somehow than to deploy an entirely new transport protocol. It's
> unfortunate this wasn't addressed at the time IPng was being designed.
this was tried. there was almost going to be a "TCP6" which was capable
of signalling an endpoint-renumber event using in-band control messages.
alas, this approach was deemed overly complex, so TCP went unchanged.
--
Paul Vixie
