Shim6, was: Re: filtering /48 is going to be necessary

Thu Mar 15 12:57:10 UTC 2012

Eugen Leitl wrote:

>> For high speed (fixed time) routed look up with 1M entries, SRAM is
>> cheap at /24 and is fine at /32 but expensive and power consuming
>> TCAM is required at /48.
>>
>> That's one reason why we should stay away from IPv6.
> 
> What prevents you from using
> http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html
> with IPv6?

Though I didn't paid $32 to read the full paper, it's like
a proposal of geography based addressing.

So, I should ask what prevents you from using it with IPv4?

						Masataka Ohta