Re: An alternative to 6to4 and teredo

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:48:30AM -0500, Keith Moore wrote:
> > > address selection is fundamentally broken.  it only works with two-party
> > > apps.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate this a bit more?  Everything that uses TCP or UDP
> > is a "two-party connection" - otherwise, you use multicast, which has
> > a completely different set of "address selection" issues.
> 
> many applications involve more than two parties, even if the interconnections
> between components of those applications are two-party connections.  a >2
> component app often needs to be able to provide referrals from one component
> to another - e.g. to say "if you need to access this component, contact it at
> address A port P".  

In that case, a reasonable way would be to pass on the full set of 
addresses for A.  Especially for new protocols this should be taken
into account, or when adapting old protocols to IPv6.

(Deleting the already-written rant about broken protocols like FTP)

Gert Doering
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