Re: note from the iesg plenary

[Jim Bound <seamus@bit-net.com>]

I was speaking of future code base.  

What has the shim to do with HIP?


/jim


On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Francis Dupont wrote:

>  In your previous mail you wrote:
> 
>    Possbily earlier with code patches with a shim I suggested to Brian on
>    other mail thread.  Do not assume the market will wait or can be held up
>    at least in Asia and Europe, and now even certain target markets will
>    begin early adoption in the U.S. and have already although in test phase
>    now.
>    
> => I disagree: we know we have no good solution in the current code base.
> I believe the solution will be in hosts and compatible with the current
> IPv6, but nodes which will be to used it will get extra functionalities
> (so we'll like to switch to them). But I agree we have to search and *find*
> a workable solution ASAP. Something like HIP seems to be promising (I was
> at the HIP meeting so I should be still biaised  :-).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Francis.Dupont@enst-bretagne.fr
>