On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 07:35:57AM -0400, Ralph Droms wrote: > 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. > Will this transition state work in practice? Has anyone actually tried it? > > * Renumbering is enabled by IPv6 (graceful renumbering) that can't be > accomplished with IPv4
How different is this to the multi-addressing multihoming scenario, which Christian Huitema's proposals are attacking? I think this is good work, but the brickbats come from those who wish to push/enforce central policy to hosts for the host address selection algorithms (moreso in larger corporate networks than the SOHO networks that Christian's work seems very well suited for). The "Renumbering is easier/cheaper in IPv6" quote comes up quite frequently; it's nice to perhaps delve into it a bit deeper (I don't recall anyone has recently...) Tim -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
