Margaret Wasserman wrote:
How often do you think that people really set-up a private,
disconnected network and later connect it to the Internet?
Do you think this will be a common real-life case, or is this
more of a theoretical edge case?
Here again is the case for mobile ad-hoc networks. By definition,
MANETs are designed to operate in infrastructureless environments.
One case might be a string of vehicles on a remote highway that
still find useful benefit in chit-chatting with one another even
though none have access to the global Internet. But, when the
string approaches a population center, hot-spot access point,
etc. all should be able to share the global Internet access as
long as one or more have direct connectivity.
IPv6 is about anticipating and designing for *future* use cases
as well as the existing paradigms of today, right? I'm *not*
suggesting that we drop back into "research-mode" - only that
we keep our sights set forward while we address the existing
deployment scenarios we have today.
Fred
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