Re: [GLOBAL-V6] IPV4 to IPv6 migration

[Gert Doering <gert@space.net>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 03:14:45PM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> In addition, in both IPv4 and IPv6, a renumbering event implies  
> disrupted communications (particularly since the actual IP addresses  
> are 'cached' in applications) and some folks care about that.

And this is actually where IPv6 could make renumbering a lot easier, as
IPv6 hosts are expected to cope with multiple addresses in parallel.

So it's not "renumber *now*", but "add new prefix, wait a few days,
deprecate old prefix, wait a few days, remove old prefix".  Which should
be far less disruptive.

Gert Doering
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