Bill, you wrote: "I think the day for this has past. For better or for worse IPv6 is slowly happening". Well, without any concept how to fill 16 octets with routable information such that all users can be mobile while being involved in unicast or anycast or multicast.
"However, if we were going to extend IPv4 with more bits, here's one strategy:" http://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html I also thought about the option field, though not as fine-tuned as you did. And: that the leading octets might be placed there and eventually moved from there to some other place like to a locator and vice versa. First of all however that in the abstraction we have to extend ipv4 with leading octets. Regards, Heiner -----Original Message----- From: William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> To: heinerhummel <heinerhum...@aol.com> Cc: rrg <rrg@irtf.org> Sent: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 2:42 pm Subject: Re: [rrg] RRG to hibernation On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:52 AM, <heinerhum...@aol.com> wrote: > Above all however there is no working strategy to deal with the situation > where ipv4 is not globally unique anymore. Neither LISP nor ILNP have so far > presented a solution. And the RRG has never discussed the theoretical basics > !!! In principle the 4 octet sized ipv4 address must be extended.My > proposal: by two additional leading octets - in mind. This doesn't mean that > they have to be placed directly in front of the 4 octets. Particularly, the > value = 0000H might be equivalent to "the two octets aren't placed anywhere > at all". But other values might be placed somewhere (e.g. being part of the > locator). Hi Heiner, I think the day for this has past. For better or for worse IPv6 is slowly happening. However, if we were going to extend IPv4 with more bits, here's one strategy: http://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
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