----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Sprunk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 6:46 PM Subject: Re: [RRG] A new draft about Hierarchical Routing Architecture
> Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But there is quite a lot of v6 support in hosts, perhaps more so than > > in networks? > > The vast majority of hosts today have an IPv6 stack, with around half having > it enabled by default and that'll rise to near totality within a few years. > To quote from the v6ops list, which may or may not know something about IPv6 deployment, >> So, the last point is most interesting - support the legacy customer >> base. These are the customers who have not got devices that are dual- >> stack or who are accessing services/servers that are not yet IPv6- >> enabled. With 79% of the market running Windows XP (Net >>Applications >> Oct 2007) we need to consider how to transition the bulk of our >> customers to IPv6. > >If the concern is Windows XP, then we can devise specific solutions. >Windows XP has some support for IPv6, but also has limitations. >Specifically, Windows XP is not designed to run in an IPv6 only >environment. For example, it performs name resolution over IPv4, and it >has only limited support for IPv6 literal addresses. We can get a list of these >limitations, and draft from there the minimal list of IPv4 functions that could >be placed in the network to make things work. That could be an >interesting project. > >-- Christian Huitema Tom Petch > S > > Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein > CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the > K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking > > > > -- > to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the > word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. > archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
