On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:27:51 +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote:
Name the engineering problems of end-user PI. (Un)fortunately nobody was yet able to show convincing prove that there IS a problem. Stop FUDding. Full Ack.
And no router vendor would be so stupid and blame itself not beeing able to route additional 20K IPv6 prefixes.
IETF is nowhere near any solution. They are as far away from it as they can be. Will probably take another few years to finally realize that. Full Ack.
The reason is fundamental and it is not a good idea to make policies against mathematical and physical laws ...
A sensible "separated locator and idenfication" approach would need a complete revamp of the operating model and (and that's the big thing) operating systems L3/L4 stacks. Won't happen, so shim6 will be a crude hack, attacking only part of the requirement space. Full Ack.
At the end of the day, there is the unique and globally routable address. We already *have* a "separated locator and idenfication" system, it is called DNS. The advantages and disadvantages are well known. Greetings Oliver Oliver Bartels F+E + Bartels System GmbH + 85435 Erding, Germany oliver@bartels.de + http://www.bartels.de + Tel. +49-8122-9729-0