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

["Templin, Fred L" <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:44 AM
>To: Templin, Fred L
>Cc: Routing Research Group
>Subject: 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?

Eh? AFAICT we have the global DNS as an example of scalable
mapping and the global BGP as a counter-example of scalable
routing.

Fred
fred.l.templin@beoing.com

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