Re: [RRG] A new draft about Hierarchical Routing Architecture

["Tom Petch" <nwnetworks@dial.pipex.com>]

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From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: <louise.burness@bt.com>; <rw@firstpr.com.au>; <rrg@psg.com>
Cc: <xuxh@huawei.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: [RRG] A new draft about Hierarchical Routing Architecture


> Thus spake louise.burness@bt.com
> > But there is quite a lot of v6 support in hosts, perhaps more so than
> > in networks?
>
> The vast majority of hosts today have an IPv6 stack, with around half having
> it enabled by default and that'll rise to near totality within a few years.
>

To quote from the v6ops list, which may or may not know something about IPv6
deployment,

>> So, the last point is most interesting - support the legacy customer
>> base. These are the customers who have not got devices that are dual-
>> stack or who are accessing services/servers that are not yet IPv6-
>> enabled. With 79% of the market running Windows XP (Net >>Applications
>> Oct 2007) we need to consider how to transition the bulk of our
>> customers to IPv6.
>
>If the concern is Windows XP, then we can devise specific solutions. >Windows
XP has some support for IPv6, but also has limitations. >Specifically, Windows
XP is not designed to run in an IPv6 only >environment. For example, it performs
name resolution over IPv4, and it >has only limited support for IPv6 literal
addresses. We can get a list of these >limitations, and draft from there the
minimal list of IPv4 functions that could >be placed in the network to make
things work. That could be an >interesting project.
>
>-- Christian Huitema

Tom Petch

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