[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing

In message <20030304161229.G15927 at Space.Net>, Gert Doering writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 04:07:58PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> >It means re-thinking some established ways to do things - things that 
>> >have caused large problems in the past, and might not have been an overly 
>> >good idea to start with.
>> 
>> Well, but those "established ways of doing things" may also happen
>> to be exactly why we could deploy IPv4 in the first place, and their
>> absense have provably hampered IPv6 deployment.
>
>Yes, of course we can stay on IPv4 with NAT and double-NAT and dynamic
>IPs for customers and whatever kludges are necessary...
>
>Changing over to IPv6 *is* painful.

I'm mainly talking about the lack of a feasible way for end-customers
to get working multi-homing.  This ties directly into the "PI" space
question.

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