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

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Wed Sep 29 08:33:05 CEST 2010


On 9/28/2010 10:37 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> I think one of the key things they may not realise, probably
> because they are just treating IPv6 as nothing more than IPv4 with
> bigger addresses, is that there is a transition period where the old
> addresses are phased out, potentially over a number of weeks or months.
> They probably assume it is an instant event that doesn't give them any
> preparation time to manage the process of e.g. updating ACLs, router
> interface configurations etc.

A) Add "years" to your list of time periods. Just because an enterprise 
gets v6 doesn't mean their v4 magically goes away, and

B) Do you have *any* evidence for this perspective at all? Because I'm 
not seeing it (the perspective you describe that is).


Doug

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