And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

Sun Oct 16 08:17:38 UTC 2005

> Certainly does. Apparently this or a similar idea was suggested  
> back in
> 1997, and is the root origin of the 64 bits for host address space,
> according to Christian Huitema, in his IPv6 book -
> http://www.huitema.net/ipv6.asp.
>
> A google search found the draft :
>
> "GSE - An Alternate Addressing Architecture for IPv6"
> M. O'Dell, INTERNET DRAFT, 1997
>
> http://www.caida.org/outreach/bib/networking/entries/odell97GSE.xml

Note that GSE is in no way a NAT, so is very different than David's  
proposal.

GSE also has a direct impact on all implementations (e.g., only use  
the identifier bits in the TCP pseudo-header, so that is also an all- 
implementations change.  Further, that is a flag day, worldwide, even  
for non-multi-homed sites.

Tony