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

Jeroen Massar jeroen at unfix.org
Tue Mar 31 14:56:08 CEST 2009


Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
> 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

That voids your first rule. NEXT.

> - allow 'political' traffic engineering, in addition to whatever
> technical reason you may have already

That also voids the first rule. NEXT.

Write a full draft. And keep in mind that there are other people that
have different requirements which they want satisfied.

Greets,
 Jeroen

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