We have relatively PI address space in IPv4, which works fine, even with current routers. No any problem to hold the whole world-wide routing with a future ones. Is it a pproblem keeping 500,000 routess in core routers? Of course, it is not (it was in 1996, but it is not in 2005 and it will not be in 2008 - even if you will have 1,000,000 routes). IPv6 schema was build to resolve problem which do not exists anymore (with fast CPU and cheap memory and ASIC's). I mean - when people switched from IPv4 to IPv6, they changed too much and too hard, trying to implement all their ideas. Result is terrible. IPSec - compare SSH and IPSec. Compare IPSec and PPTP. No, IPSec is extremely bad thing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Conrad" <david.conrad@nominum.com> To: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net> Cc: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@burtongroup.com>; "Scott McGrath" <mcgrath@fas.harvard.edu>; <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 12:01 AM Subject: Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:16 PM, Alexei Roudnev wrote:
IPv6 address allocation schema is terrible (who decided to use SP dependent spaces?),
Well, to date, provider based addressing works (although there were times when it was a close thing). Your alternative?
security is terrible (who designed IPSec protocol?) and so so on.
I wouldn't say terrible. Annoying, perhaps, but security is often like that. Your alternative?
Unfortunately, it can fail only if something else will be created, which do not looks so.
The "something else" already exists, although many are unhappy about it. It has evolved a bit -- it's now called NUTSS (http:// nutss.gforge.cis.cornell.edu/)... :-)
Rgds, -drc