[85704] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Sun Oct 16 04:21:04 2005
In-Reply-To: <20051016173247.17b69d00.random@72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org>
Cc: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>, vixie@vix.com,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 01:17:38 -0700
To: Mark Smith <random@72616e646f6d20323030342d30342d31360a.nosense.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Certainly does. Apparently this or a similar idea was suggested
> back in
> 1997, and is the root origin of the 64 bits for host address space,
> according to Christian Huitema, in his IPv6 book -
> http://www.huitema.net/ipv6.asp.
>
> A google search found the draft :
>
> "GSE - An Alternate Addressing Architecture for IPv6"
> M. O'Dell, INTERNET DRAFT, 1997
>
> http://www.caida.org/outreach/bib/networking/entries/odell97GSE.xml
Note that GSE is in no way a NAT, so is very different than David's
proposal.
GSE also has a direct impact on all implementations (e.g., only use
the identifier bits in the TCP pseudo-header, so that is also an all-
implementations change. Further, that is a flag day, worldwide, even
for non-multi-homed sites.
Tony
