IPv6 Pain Experiment

Mon Oct 7 22:32:46 UTC 2019

>> Michel Py wrote :
>> When did you write this ? I read it before, just can't remember how long ago.

> William Herrin wrote :
> 2007. Half of IPv6's lifetime ago. It came out of an ARIN PPML thread titled "The myth of IPv6-IPv4 interoperation."
> On one side of the argument, folks saying that the need to manage two configurations impairs IPv6's deployment.
> On the other, an individual  whose thesis was the IPv6 could not have been designed to be backwards compatible
> with IPv4 in a way that required no new configuration, just incremental, backward-compatible software upgrades.

Why did you choose this route, instead of encapsulating the packet with the extended address into an IPv4 packet ?

Michel.

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