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

Sun Nov 21 05:51:15 UTC 2004

On 21 Nov 2004, Paul Vixie wrote:

> if the ipv6 routing table ever gets as large as the ipv4 routing table is
> today (late 2004 if you're going to quote me later), we'll be in deep doo.

s/if/when/ 

There some hope though that by that time routers will have slightly more 
memory and slightly better CPUs ...

But I do think its clear that with IPv6 a solution needs to be found for 
the average joe-business-user who wants to have benefits of connectivity
with several providers without necessity of doing BGP. IETF Multi6 seems 
to be the best effort we have in this area and its quite clear now from
both that and from HIP and MIP that new "host" layer will have to be added 
to TCP/IP between IP and TCP and then connection will not be between one
ip and another but between one host and another and simplified routing
protocol will decide which of the ips (and each host may have multiple 
ones) are actually used for source and destination of data packets.

-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william at elan.net