nanog mailing list archives

Re: IPv6 daydreams


From: bmanning () vacation karoshi com
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:41:23 +0000


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


Current thread: