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Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
From: Bora Akyol <bora.akyol () aprius com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:08:52 -0700
IPv6 isn't what I wanted it to be (and I was on the IPng directorate). That said, it's what we have, and I think we *really* need something with a lot more address space.
At a very low, hardware centric level, IPv6 would be a lot easier to implement if 1) The addresses were 64 bits instead of 128 bits. 2) The extension headers architecture was completely revamped to be more hardware friendly. I hear a lot of noise about wanting to do 40GE/100GE with L2/L3 switching, but it is difficult to extremely difficult to implement hardware that can accommodate all the flexibility of v6 and keep up. IPv6 is a software architect's dream and a hardware architect's nightmare ;-) Bora
Current thread:
- RE: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6, (continued)
- RE: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Jamie Bowden (Jun 29)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Edward Lewis (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Joel Jaeggli (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Randy Bush (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 John Curran (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Randy Bush (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 brett watson (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Randy Bush (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Bora Akyol (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Bora Akyol (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Simon Leinen (Jun 29)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Andy Davidson (Jun 29)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Bob Snyder (Jun 29)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Joe Abley (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Stephen Satchell (Jun 29)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 30)