[88746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: a radical proposal (Re: protocols that don't meet the need...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Thu Feb 16 08:24:58 2006
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:24:25 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0602152040130.18841-100000@ruby.he.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Mike Leber wrote:
>
> While there are not as many businesses and organizations as people on the
> planet, as an exercise imagine 4 billion prefixes.
At the moment mobile IP is not implemented using the global routing
infrastructure, because it can't scale to 4 billion prefixes. But if it
*could* scale that well, mobile IP would be much simpler. One prefix per
device.
Tony.
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