On Dec 9, 2010, at 1:42 PM, Marie-France Berny wrote:

> I may be wrong but I understand that IPsec can be at least used with IPv4 and 
> IPv6. So the best solution seems to be to add IPsec as a frontend to the 
> NPTv6 function of for IPv4. In this case the full subnet two bytes are 
> available to the user. However, there is need for one bit to tell if an 
> adjustment was made or not.

I'm in favor of IPsec; ESP (Encryption or the ESP-NULL integrity check) works 
through this. AH doesn't. 

I'm not at all sure how that relates to the subnet part. If the ISP gives you 
an N bit prefix, you have 64-N bits available for the subnet.

> MFB
> 
> 2010/12/9 JFC Morfin <[email protected]>
> Too bad it makes us lose two bytes in the address (unless IPSec is carried in 
> the IUI - after the NPTv6 process?). We would need to indicate somewhere that 
> we could use an extended IPv6 header. We have needs for that, but it is too 
> early to discuss this. Our priorities are to test the InterPlus concept 
> (Plugged Layers on the User Side) with the ML-DNS and internal IDv6 ported by 
> 3rd or 4th level domain names.
> 
> GSE
> I understand that an edge network may have several upstreams that it can use 
> to send (and rotate upstreams) but also that on each of these upstreams it 
> has a different address.
> 
> jfc
> 

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