[arin-ppml] Change of Use and ARIN (was: Re: AFRINIC And The Stability Of The Internet Number Registry System)

[scott at solarnetone.org]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2021, Owen DeLong wrote:

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>> On Sep 14, 2021, at 22:42 , scott at solarnetone.org wrote:
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>>> Nobody I know has found a way to do lossless packing of 128 bits into a 32 bit field yet. Until you can achieve that, compatibility is rather limited.
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>>> Please present your solution here.
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>> Encode it in four sequential packets, 32 bits per, and add logic to parse those malformed addresses in the routing daemons.
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> Either I’m missing something, or that’s not going to be functional when 
> those 4 packets reach the IPv4-Only end host and it has to reply.

Maybe, but that is not the challenge you presented:)

Seriously, some manner of stateful 6/4 nat or header mangling is going to 
be required upstream of the legacy device to translate.

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