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



On 16 sep 2008, at 17:40, Templin, Fred L wrote:

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.

Wouldn't a rose by another name be just as unscalable?

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