Re: Draft: PI addressing derived from AS numbers

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

> >  There is no way on earth existings stacks are going to get 
> > demolished and
> > reconstructed. Even getting them enhanced will mean a lot of
> > heavy lifting.
> I know of several significant implementers who would be willing to make
> significant changes to their IPv6 stack, IFF it would have significant
> improvements for IPv6.  Getting multi-homing into a scalable state 
> would
> be one example of a significant improvement.  Making mobility a 
> first-order
> property, rather than a "Mobile IP" add-on protocol, might be another 
> one
> (not sure).
I think you are right. However, I still think that we are trying to 
solve everything in one go. I think that we will have to go to a 8+8 or 
16+16 model, but not from day one. We will have to realize that we need 
to change things a bit at a time. This will most likely also mean that 
getting adoption for changes is easier. So besides working on the end 
outcome we should also be looking at how to get there.

- kurtis -