IPv6 daydreams

Mon Oct 17 03:41:23 UTC 2005

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 05:20:12PM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> > Okay, I'll bite - If I were king, here's what I'd want
> > to see:
> 
> [ changes to current policies, not architecture, elided ]
> 
> let's first agree on some goals
> 
>   o really big address space, not the v6 fixed 32 bit
>     limited game.  (old dogs will now bay for variable
>     length, aroooooo!)

	woof!

>   o a routing system which has the ability to scale really
>     well in the presence of fewer and fewer nodes (think
>     sites) where out-degree == 1

	sure... maybe. is there the presumption of e2e here?

>   o mobility

	process mobility?  latency tolerent?  any distinction
	btwn individual nodes or whole networks?  need clarity here.

>   o really scalable v4 backward compatibility so that we
>     don't have the end-user-affecting mess which looms in a
>     few years

	well... not so sure about this one.  why do we care?
	
> 
> anything else?
> 
> randy