Hi Sheng, For reference, Deutsche Telekom's Peter Löthberg brainchild-project Terastream puts locally significant information in IPv6 addresses (recreating some sort of label switching/routing). It's currently being deployed in Croatia.
Regards, Martin On 29 maj 2013, at 09:06, Sheng Jiang <[email protected]> wrote: > IP addresses are designed as topology locator, so that every packet can be > routed to its network destination. > > However, even in IPv4 era, some network operators have mapped their IP > address with certain semantic locally. These kind of mechanism explicitly > express the semantic properties of every packet. Consequently, these network > operators can inspect the properties of packets easily by mapping the > addresses back to semantic. > > Network operators, who have large IPv6 address space, may also choose to > embedded some semantics into IPv6 addresses by assigning additional > significance to specific bits within the prefix. > draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix documents a framework method that network > operations may use their addresses with embedded semantics. These semantics > bits are only meaningful within a single network, or group of interconnected > networks which share a common addressing policy. Based on these embedded > semantic bits in source/destination addresses, the network operators can > accordingly treat network packets differently and efficiently. > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03 > > Could you please review this draft and comments? It will help the document > become more useful information to be shared. > > Best regards, > > Sheng > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 10:28 AM >> To: Qiong Sun; Ian Farrer; Sheng Jiang; Boyang >> Subject: New Version Notification for >> draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03.txt >> >> >> A new version of I-D, draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03.txt >> has been successfully submitted by Sheng Jiang and posted to the >> IETF repository. >> >> Filename: draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix >> Revision: 03 >> Title: A Framework for Semantic IPv6 Prefix >> Creation date: 2013-05-28 >> Group: Individual Submission >> Number of pages: 19 >> URL: >> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03.txt >> Status: >> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix >> Htmlized: >> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03 >> Diff: >> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-jiang-v6ops-semantic-prefix-03 >> >> Abstract: >> This document describes a framework method that network operations >> may use their addresses. Network operators, who have large IPv6 >> address space, may choose to embedded some semantics into IPv6 >> addresses by assigning additional significance to specific bits >> within the prefix. By embedded semantics into IPv6 prefixes, the >> semantics of packets can be inspected easily. Routers and other >> intermediary devices can easily apply relevant policies as required. >> Packet-level differentiation can also enable flow-level and user- >> level differentiation. Consequently, the network operators can >> accordingly treat network packets differently and efficiently. The >> management and maintenance of networks can be much simpler. >> >> >> >> >> The IETF Secretariat > > _______________________________________________ > v6ops mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/v6ops -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
