Re: [ipv6-wg@localhost] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:13:22 +0100
Kurt Erik Lindqvist (kurtis@localhost) wrote:
> >>>>Changing over to IPv6 *is* painful.
> >>>
> >>>... but should be considered rather soon !
> >>>
> >>>just my .2 cents
> >>>
> >>
> >>First we need to get it to work.
> >>
> >
> >Hi kurtis,
> >
> >what is _not_ working according your opinion ?
>
> Tools is the first that comes to mind. If you want the larger carriers
> to use it they need to adopt their provisioning systems, but that is
> not a fault of IPv6. I think we need to urgently solve multihoming,
> some PI like mechanism, and I think we should take out site-locals, or
> at least minimize their use until it's to late and we are stuck with
> the RFC1918 problem and applications that won't work.
Okay, so let's address this one by one:
- what ideas do we have regarding multihoming, what is/should be
deprecated and what preferred ?
> That is a problem that will be solved when there is enough demand.
>
the usual chicken/egg problem :-)
--jan
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