IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)

Fri Jun 22 02:29:28 UTC 2012

Owen DeLong wrote:

>> It is the first step to have the RSIP style transparent Internet.
>>
>> The second step is to use port numbers for routing within ISPs.
>> But, it is not necessary today.
>>
> Still doesn't scale. 40 bits isn't enough to uniquely identify a
> conversation end-point.

It's 48 bit.

> If you use port numbers for routing,
> you don't have enough port numbers for conversation IDs.

That you use IPv4 addresses for routing does not make it
unusable for identifications.

Moreover, it is easy to have a transport protocol with
32bit or 48bit port numbers with the end to end fashion
only by modifying end part of the Internet.

>> Unlike IPv4 with natural boundary of /24, routing table
>> explosion of IPv6 is a serious scalability problem.

> Solvable.

It was solvable.

> IPv6 has enough bits that we can use map/encap or
> other various forms of herarchical overlay ASN-based routing
> to resolve those issues over time.

The reality is that situation has been worsening over time.

As RFC2374 was obsoleted long ago, it is now impossible to
restore it.

						Masataka Ohta