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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IPv6 for FreeBSD
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 17:17:17 -0700
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Scot W. Hetzel wrote:
] The article called IPv6: The next generation of TCP/IP networking did
] mention that IPv4 and IPv6 would co-exist for a while and that their
] would be Islands of IPv6 connected to IPv6-IPv4 Gateways.
I think it's pretty obvious that you could two-stage addressing
to get them to interoperate: give out the exact same addressing
under IPv6 as IPv4, with a "special" value for the remainder of
the tuples. Once the transition is complete, make the legacy
space illegal and reassign adresses.
One major problem with deploying IPv6 is that the .COM, .EDU, etc.
address space is rather crowded; it's about time to pick another
system that breaks up the name space by primary business. I think
a big one would be "ENT" for entertainment, or even "MOV" for movie
and "TV" for television, etc.. This reorg should probably occur
to offload directory services (currently handled by DNS). There
is actually some argument for private management of the space
instead of the (current) centralized management.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.