OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

Wed Jul 6 22:34:53 UTC 2005

On 7-jul-2005, at 0:18, Joe Abley wrote:

> With great hindsight it would have been nice if the multi6/shim6  
> design exercise had come *during* the IPv6 design exercise, rather  
> than afterwards: we might have ended up with a protocol/addressing  
> model that accommodated both the address size problem and also the  
> DFZ state bloat issue. Oh well.

Well, maybe I'm too optimistic here, but I believe that if a real  
solution to the DFZ problem presents itself, the IETF will bend over  
backwards and then some to shoehorn it into IP.

But it certainly looks like a small DFZ table and portable address  
space are fundamentally incompatible.