Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>]

In message <41EC8387-77D2-4F4E-9509-41A3870DA5D8 () muada com>, Iljitsch van Beijn
um writes:
> On 7-jul-2005, at 0:18, Joe Abley wrote:
>
> > With great hindsight it would have been nice if the multi6/shim6  
> > design exercise had come *during* the IPv6 design exercise, rather  
> > than afterwards: we might have ended up with a protocol/addressing  
> > model that accommodated both the address size problem and also the  
> > DFZ state bloat issue. Oh well.
>
> Well, maybe I'm too optimistic here, but I believe that if a real  
> solution to the DFZ problem presents itself, the IETF will bend over  
> backwards and then some to shoehorn it into IP.

There were people who tried, way back when.  We were outvoted...  (The 
situation in the IETF has indeed changed.)

                --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb