On Sat, 12 Mar 2005, Keith Moore wrote:
however, when that functionality requires having knowledge that is only
possessed by the network (which is what hosts need to do address
selection), moving that functionality all the way to hosts is probably
the Wrong Thing. especially when you realize that a lot of the value
added by IPv6 is the ability to have large numbers of relatively stupid
hosts (like sensors).
moving it to the CPE routers is the correct solution in my opinion. of
course, the line blurrs when you use a host as a router, but that is a
different story...
regarding the value add, one would still need a relatively large physical
routing mesh, or a least a stack of hubs, or a wireless access point...
some kind of readily scalable layer 1, to have large numbers of stupid
hosts, though they need not necessarily be sensors. anyone who has
admin'ed a network of say, beauracrats for example, can readily attest to
this;)
Scott
(you might make an argument for moving the functionality to the edge of
the network, but not all the way to hosts, and that argument might be
convincing)
Keith
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