At 13:32 17/12/00, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
It is true that v6 qua v6 does not solve the route explosion
problem. It is also true that the route explosion problem is
a real problem. However, it doesn't make it worse, either.
From an operator perspective, supporting *2* IP protocols
is much harder than supporting just one. If one looks around,
very few NOCs on the planet today could reasonably be called
"fully successful" just managing IPv4.
So, if one wanted IPv6 to be promoted by operators,
one might spend time listening to operators and devising
clever ways to make multi-homing and routing work visibly
*better* with IPv6, to compensate for the much increased
operational burden. Oddly enough, some folk are doing just
this.
Ran
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