Biggest mistake for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible, developers admit

[Pierfrancesco Caci]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 14:30, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:

> Please then propose a "total solution" to this problem that solves it
> for everybody. A requirements document would already be a great start
> for that matter.
>

Let's start a list of requirements, just to summarize this thread.
I'll write down what comes to my mind, others please add theirs:

- keep the routing table reasonably compact
- allow multihoming the way v4 PI does for small players
- allow 'political' traffic engineering, in addition to whatever
technical reason you may have already


> You can come out of your cozy cave when you have done that.

believe me, it's all but cozy in here... :-)



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 Pierfrancesco Caci, ik5pvx