Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption

[Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com>]

On Thu 2015-Oct-01 18:28:52 -0700, Damian Menscher via NANOG 
<nanog () nanog org> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Matthew Newton <mcn4 () leicester ac uk> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:42:57PM +0000, Todd Underwood wrote:
> > > it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with the
> > rest
> > > of the internet.  it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but i guess
> > > we're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons
> > > learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet).
> >
> > Would be really interesting to know how you would propose
> > squeezing 128 bits of address data into a 32 bit field so that we
> > could all continue to use IPv4 with more addresses than it's has
> > available to save having to move to this new incompatible format.
>
>
> I solved that problem a few years ago (well, kinda -- only for backend
> logging, not for routing):
> http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/net/InetAddresses.html#getCoercedIPv4Address(java.net.InetAddress)

Squeezing 32 bits into 128 bits is easy.  Let me know how you do with 
squeezing 128 bits into 32 bits...

> Damian

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Hugo

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