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

Sun Oct 16 08:28:57 UTC 2005

Tony Li wrote:

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> It's just a mess.  I think that we all can agree that a real locator/ 
> identifier split is the correct architectural direction, but that's  
> simply not politically tractable.  If the real message that the  
> provider community is trying to send is that they want this, and not  
> IPv6 as it stands today, then that's the message that should be sent,  
> without reference to shim6.
> 
> Tony
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How is a split between locator / identifier any different logicaly from 
the existing ipv4 source routing?

I thought that got dead ended?

Or is a table lookup going to be needed?

Wont all those tables need to be in the exact (or close to) same place 
as the current routing tables?

Appreciate any enlightenment.

Joe