Re: [RRG] LISP, IPv6 and 6to4

[Tony Li <tli@cisco.com>]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:

> I am wondering why there hasn't been more discussion about
> using LISP as the vehicle to get us to IPv6, e.g. by having
> EIDs as IPv6 addresses and RLOCs as IPv4 addresses from the
> onset. A hallway discussion brought up the subject of
> incremental deployment, but why can't we just use 6to4
> as the bootstrapping vehicle to get us to LISP/IPv6?
>
> By this, I mean that nodes having 2002::/16 EIDs are handled
> using 6to4 and have the same deployment profile as for 6to4
> today. Then, we require that nodes having non-6to4 EIDs be
> deployed behind ETRs. If we then also say that 6to4 relay
> routers must configure themselves as ITRs and do the necessary
> map-and-encaps, we have an incremental deployment profile.
>
> Any thoughts on this?


Fred,

Could such a host access IPv4 sites?

Tony

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