RE: [apnic-talk] "IPv8"
On Tuesday, May 12, 1998 11:47 PM, Fred Baker[SMTP:fred at cisco dot com] wrote:
@At 8:44 AM -0500 5/12/98, Jim Fleming wrote:
@>Why is it that people refuse to give people choice ?
@
@Nobody is refusing to let you make your choices. We're just pointing out
@that we make choices too, and the choices you make don't interoperate well
@with the choices we make. If that's OK with you, that's OK with us too. But
@we'd like to be able to make interoperable choices, and it seems to us that
@you're the one that's different.
@
By the way...the choices we (in IPv8 land) make interoperate very
well with the choices you make...
1. 43 bit IPv8 addresses fit inside 128 bit IPv6 address fields.
2. IPv8 uses the IPv4 core transport network to carry bits.
3. IPv8 can also use an IPv6 network if it ever becomes deployed widely
4. IPv8 uses the basic features of IPv4 DNS that exist today
5. IPv8 leverages off the huge knowledge base of IPv4 with similar headers
In summary, we interoperate with the best from IPv4 and IPv6.
This is similar to the way DOS selected the basics of UNIX and
set the rest aside until later...
As far differences...IPv8 does not burn up IPv4 addresses the way
IPv6 does. Why deploy a new protocol that encourages people to
run dual stacks ? Those IPv4 addresses will be around forever.
Furthermore, if people move to pure IPv6 they will not be able to
talk to legacy IPv4 systems because those legacy systems can
not talk back to a pure IPv6 machine. That could fragment the Internet.
IPv8 conserves IPv4 address space. IPv8 moves legacy machines
away from the core and to the edges where the Internet grows.
IPv8 leverages off of DHCP and other technologies. IPv8 also
is derived from a *platform model* as opposed to the IETF
*protocol-centric models*. That is one of the major differences
and one of the many reasons why the IETF is not qualified to
deal with IPv8.
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.net
IPv8 - Designed for the Rest of the Human Race
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