[97652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Jun 28 18:32:33 2007
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From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:25:07 +0200
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 28-jun-2007, at 18:51, John Curran wrote:
> If you have a plan for continued operation of the Internet
> during IPv4 depletion, please write it up as an RFC. Our
> present Internet routing scheme is predominantly working
> based on hierarchical routing but I'm certain there are
> alternatives.
How about this: when the OS only has an IPv6 address, and an
application wants to talk to an IPv4-only destination, automatically
proxy the TCP session through an HTTPS proxy. This catches anything
that uses TCP and doesn't need to know its own IPv4 address (hard to
know if you don't have one) which would be upwards of 95% of all
protocols in widespread use. So we only have to fix that other 5%.
