[82096] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Jul 8 15:52:40 2005
In-Reply-To: <030c01c582b2$f7bee6c0$6401a8c0@alexh>
Cc: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@burtongroup.com>,
"Scott McGrath" <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:01:12 -0700
To: Alexei Roudnev <alex@relcom.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:16 PM, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> IPv6 address allocation schema is terrible (who decided to use SP
> dependent
> spaces?),
Well, to date, provider based addressing works (although there were
times when it was a close thing). Your alternative?
> security is terrible (who designed IPSec protocol?) and so so on.
I wouldn't say terrible. Annoying, perhaps, but security is often
like that. Your alternative?
> Unfortunately, it can fail only if something else will be created,
> which do
> not looks so.
The "something else" already exists, although many are unhappy about
it. It has evolved a bit -- it's now called NUTSS (http://
nutss.gforge.cis.cornell.edu/)... :-)
Rgds,
-drc
