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Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]


From: Paul Vixie <vixie () vix com>
Date: 21 Nov 2004 04:38:59 +0000


It seems easier to try to back-port SCTP's multihoming features to TCP
somehow than to deploy an entirely new transport protocol.  It's
unfortunate this wasn't addressed at the time IPng was being designed.

this was tried.  there was almost going to be a "TCP6" which was capable
of signalling an endpoint-renumber event using in-band control messages.
alas, this approach was deemed overly complex, so TCP went unchanged.
-- 
Paul Vixie


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