Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > to make v6 work tarks end users more work than v4
>
> if "v4" includes dealing with an increasingly severe shortage of
> address space (which sooner or later implies forced renumbering)
> and/or tying together multiple NATted networks, it's not at all
> clear that this takes less work than v6.
It certainly takes more. The amount of NAT equipment out there is
astonishing, and as I said at the plenary, people are starting to pay
Real Money (as in millions a year) in large organizations to keep the
NATs working properly. Several layers of NAT has become common, and
NATs are stateful, which means they are necessarily more of a
reliability problem than routers.
v6 is really no harder to use than the old v4 pre-NAT network was.
It is true that v6 qua v6 does not solve the route explosion
problem. It is also true that the route explosion problem is a real
problem. However, it doesn't make it worse, either.
Perry
