On Jul 28, 2011 5:28 PM, "Martin Rex" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Masataka Ohta wrote: > > > > > It would be nice if 5 or 10 years ago there would have been a good > > > standard to do address selection. > > > > 11 years ago in draft-ohta-e2e-multihoming-00.txt, I wrote: > > > > End systems (hosts) are end systems. To make the end to end principle > > effectively work, the end systems must have all the available > > knowledge to make decisions by the end systems themselves. > > > > With regard to multihoming, when an end system want to communicate > > with a multihomed end system, the end system must be able to select > > most appropriate (based on the local information) destination address > > of the multihomed end system. > > > The primary reason why the IPv4 -> IPv6 transition is so painful > is that it requires everyone one and everything to become multi-homed > and every software to perform multi-connect, even though most > devices actually just have a single interface. > > It would be so much easier if hosts on the public internet could > use one single IPv6 address that contains both, the IPv6 network prefix > and the IPv4 host address, and then let the network figure out whether > the connect goes through as IPv4 or IPv6 (for IPv6 clients). >
This is largely (not entirely) achieved with nat64 / dns64. Cb. > -Martin > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
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