Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption

[Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>]

In message <CAB2RJyiqqHjuAffprc0UbBgjo1hNSfp3SeqKooqb9didb5svvw () mail gmail com>, Todd Underwood writes:
> I can't tell if this question is serious. It's either making fun of the
> embarrassingly inadequate job we have done on this transition out it's
> naive and ignorant in a genius way.
>
> Read the asn32 migration docs for one that migrations like this can be
> properly done.
>
> This was harder but not impossible. We just chose badly for decades and now
> we have NAT *and* a dumb migration.
>
> Oh well.
>
> T

That sounds like only using 6to4 addresses until the entire internet
supports IPv6.  Unfortunately there were NEVER enough IPv4 addresses
to actually do that.  We were effectively out of IPv4 addresses
before we started.

Add to that no one wanted to run 6to4 relays.  For the asn32 strategy
to work every IPv6 capable router needed to be a 6to4 relay and to
perform encapsulation / decapsulation depending upon whether the
next hop supported IPv6 or not.

Mark

> On Oct 1, 2015 19:26, "Matthew Newton" <mcn4 () leicester ac uk> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:42:57PM +0000, Todd Underwood wrote:
> > > it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with the
> > rest
> > > of the internet.  it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but i guess
> > > we're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons
> > > learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet).
> >
> > Would be really interesting to know how you would propose
> > squeezing 128 bits of address data into a 32 bit field so that we
> > could all continue to use IPv4 with more addresses than it's has
> > available to save having to move to this new incompatible format.
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > Matthew
> >
> >
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