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Re: Why is IPv6 a must?

2001-11-07 22:30:03
% >Actually, the engineering cost of building IPv6 into operating systems
% >is already essentially paid.  The cost of building it into routers and the
% >like
% >is paid.  The vendors are all (basically) IPv6-ready.
% 
% Valdis,
% 
% Your message is generally well put.  However, while it is possible to send
% the packets on the wire, the fundamental underlying scaling point, the
% routing system, has not been properly addressed.  Perhaps a solution can be
% retrofitted in, but then again, who knows?  This, I thought, was <largely>
% the point of multi6.
% 
% Eliot

        Hum... I thought that multi6 was trying to figure out the ramifications
        of multihomeing w/ IPv6.  The issues wrt the routing system really
        need to occur in a WG devoted to better routing protocols, not one
        with a focus on multihoming.  at least IMHO... 

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--bill



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