[85740] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 daydreams
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Sun Oct 16 23:41:48 2005
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:41:23 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17235.6252.6974.102136@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:20:12PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > Okay, I'll bite - If I were king, here's what I'd want
> > to see:
>
> [ changes to current policies, not architecture, elided ]
>
> let's first agree on some goals
>
> o really big address space, not the v6 fixed 32 bit
> limited game. (old dogs will now bay for variable
> length, aroooooo!)
woof!
> o a routing system which has the ability to scale really
> well in the presence of fewer and fewer nodes (think
> sites) where out-degree == 1
sure... maybe. is there the presumption of e2e here?
> o mobility
process mobility? latency tolerent? any distinction
btwn individual nodes or whole networks? need clarity here.
> o really scalable v4 backward compatibility so that we
> don't have the end-user-affecting mess which looms in a
> few years
well... not so sure about this one. why do we care?
>
> anything else?
>
> randy
