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

Mohacsi Janos mohacsi at niif.hu
Tue Mar 31 16:14:28 CEST 2009




On Tue, 31 Mar 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
ok.

> - allow multihoming the way v4 PI does for small players

What do you mean by this? Have more than one upstream provider for 
resiliency?

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


Are you willing to pay for poluting DFZ routing table?

Best Regards,
 		Janos Mohacsi


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