[ppml] 240/4

[Durand, Alain]

David,

I would agree with you if there were no need to certify  products, make sure all vendors (even those who do not exist any more) provide a fix, differentiate the old vs new code to be deployed, and patch all existing system...

In a network like ours, you are talking about a multi year effort.

Yes, from a coding perspective, this is much less than implementing a new stack from scratch. However, from a deployment perspective, it is still less effort than deploying IPv6, but not significantly less. And all this to delay exhaustion by a year 1/2 at best... Not worth it IMHO.

    - Alain.


----- Original Message -----
From: David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org>
To: Durand, Alain
Cc: Public Policy Mailing List <ppml at arin.net>
Sent: Wed May 02 17:06:46 2007
Subject: Re: [ppml] 240/4

Alain,

On May 2, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Durand, Alain wrote:
> Yes, this could be fixed but will take a large amount of resources  
> from all equipment/software vendors and everybody using them to  
> certify them.
>
> IMHO, I'd rather like to see vendors spending their limited  
> resources making their product fully workable with IPv6.

While I agree that making products fully workable with IPv6 would be  
better, I suspect it would be a bit easier to remove an "if"  
statement (yes, I'm making a large assumption) than implementing a  
completely new networking stack.

Rgds,
-drc