I-D Action:draft-azinger-scalable-addressing-00.txt

[Tony Li]

On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:00 PM, David Conrad wrote:

> In my view, the decision by the IETF that identity and location are overloaded into a single value in IPv6 (just like in IPv4) pretty much guarantees renumbering will be hard.  The fact that the initial recommendations on address allocation policy made by the IETF ignored the fact that renumbering is hard greatly reduced the desirability of IPv6 to larger scale end users.
> 
> Does that clarify?


Not really.  If I understand your argument, you're suggesting that because the IETF didn't fix renumbering, it doesn't get to insist on aggregation now.

I'm just not following the logic.

Tony