Re: [RRG] drafty draft of Dublin RRG meeting minutes

2008-09-17 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Sep 16, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Lixia Zhang wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Marshall Eubanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 15, 2008 11:24:50 AM PDT To: Tony Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Lixia Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Request For IETF 72 WG and BOF Sessions Agenda, Minutes,

[RRG] Elegance and the rejection of SHIM6 host-based multihoming

2008-09-17 Thread Robin Whittle
Hi Iljitsch, There are several messages I want to respond to, and will next week, but I wanted to first challenge something you wrote in Re: [RRG] Renumbering...: Stephen Sprunk wrote: The users leaned on the RIRs to do PI, and any attempt to get rid of PI would take even more ooomph than

RE: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 mass adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users

2008-09-17 Thread Tony Li
|If this is true, and it sounds plausible, and if this $ 200 billion |industry (2 billion x $ 100 per) needs IPv6 and |a new routing mechanism, why isn't this list flooded by cell-phone |engineers ? |Do they believe in magic ? |Do they just don't know the IETF IRTF exist ? |Or do they have

Re: [RRG] Elegance and the rejection of SHIM6 host-based multihoming

2008-09-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17 sep 2008, at 8:40, Robin Whittle wrote: The shim6 effort was well under way at that point but not yet mature enough that it was possible to know whether it would solve the problem. The functional goals of SHIM6 are well known and have been for a while: to provide host-based

Re: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 mass adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users

2008-09-17 Thread Bruce Curtis
On Sep 16, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Roland Dobbins wrote: Or do they have other plans ? There's a lot of NATting going on in this space, and an active desire on the part of management to provide the minimum of 'true' IP connectivity which users will accept and pay for, due to fears of

Re: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 mass adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users

2008-09-17 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:35 PM, Bruce Curtis wrote: About 11 minutes in there is a list of mobile devices that have support for IPv6, this of course doesn't address the issue of whether it's allowed to be enabled by the user on a given wireless provider's network I can set up a mobile

Re: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 mass adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users

2008-09-17 Thread Bruce Curtis
On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:53 AM, Roland Dobbins wrote: On Sep 17, 2008, at 10:35 PM, Bruce Curtis wrote: About 11 minutes in there is a list of mobile devices that have support for IPv6, this of course doesn't address the issue of whether it's allowed to be enabled by the user on a given

Re: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 mass adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users

2008-09-17 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Sep 17, 2008, at 11:49 PM, Bruce Curtis wrote: This hotspot operator is providing IPv6 access for free until the end of 2008. http://hotspot.monzoon.net/downloads/Pressetext_Hotzones_IPv6_Monzoon_E.pdf This is very cool - I hope others will follow their example.

Re: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 mass adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users

2008-09-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17 sep 2008, at 17:49, Bruce Curtis wrote: I think the presentation also mentioned that a lot of the applications supported IPv6 which is also important but still not useful if the wireless provider does not provide IPv6. We can tunnel v6 over v4 if necessary, lack of support in ISP

Re: [RRG] 2 billion IP cellphones in 2103 mass adoption of IPv6 by currentIPv4 users

2008-09-17 Thread Wesley George
If this is true, and it sounds plausible, and if this $ 200 billion industry (2 billion x $ 100 per) needs IPv6 and a new routing mechanism, why isn't this list flooded by cell-phone engineers ? Do they believe in magic ? Do they just don't know the IETF IRTF exist ? Or do they have other

Re: [RRG] Elegance and the rejection of SHIM6 host-based multihoming

2008-09-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'd like to point out that rejecting shim6 isn't within the ISPs' or even site operators' remit. The real issue is whether o/s implementors care to include shim6 code in their stacks or not. If they do, shim6 will self-deploy; if they don't, it won't. (Pretty much the same is true of SCTP, except