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RE: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 & mass adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users



 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:35 AM
>To: Templin, Fred L
>Cc: Robin Whittle; Routing Research Group; Steven Blake
>Subject: Re: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 & mass 
>adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users
>
>[2 billion cell phones in the next 95 years seems on the low side.]
>
>On 16 sep 2008, at 17:12, Templin, Fred L wrote:
>
>> Who says there needs to be growth in the number of IPv6
>> BGP routes? If we map/encaps the entire IPv6 space as an
>> overlay over the existing IPv4 Internet, we keep IPv6
>> prefixes out of the BGP routing tables and we get to
>> scale through mapping w/o affecting routing scaling.
>
>There still needs to be a box that takes an IPv6 packet and decides  
>where that packet should go based on its destination address and  
>therefore this box needs to run a protocol to learn which address  
>prefixes go where.

Call that box a LISP ITR, e.g., and the decision of where
the packet goes is based on resolving an IPv6 EID to an
IPv4 RLOC. That is a mapping function; not routing function.

Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com


>The only thing that such an overlay buys us over multiprotocol BGP is  
>that the routing in the overlay network can be less dynamic 
>because it  
>doesn't have to know about the status of the network in the 
>middle. If  
>the destination is single homed the mapping can even be static but if  
>the destination is multihomed then the mapping must still react to a  
>smaller set of routing changes.
>
>(One might observe that if BGP had been designed better those same  
>advantages could have been realized without an overlay or new  
>protocols.)
>

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