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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Jul 8 15:46:56 2005

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Cc: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:34:53 +0200
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On 7-jul-2005, at 0:18, Joe Abley wrote:

> With great hindsight it would have been nice if the multi6/shim6  
> design exercise had come *during* the IPv6 design exercise, rather  
> than afterwards: we might have ended up with a protocol/addressing  
> model that accommodated both the address size problem and also the  
> DFZ state bloat issue. Oh well.

Well, maybe I'm too optimistic here, but I believe that if a real  
solution to the DFZ problem presents itself, the IETF will bend over  
backwards and then some to shoehorn it into IP.

But it certainly looks like a small DFZ table and portable address  
space are fundamentally incompatible.

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