> Another potential advantage for IPv6 that is a little harder to quantify is > the notion of "graceful" renumbering - the ability to have a transition > state in which both the old and new prefixes are in use simultaneously.
the effect of this on renumbering cost is going to be highly site-dependent. "graceful" renumbering offers the potential to renumber with zero downtime, and without breaking open connections. if you lose a substantial amount of money for every minute of downtime, this matters a lot. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
