On 2/18/16, 1:04 AM, "Naoki Matsuhira" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Wes,
>
>I agree the necessity of problem statement. The draft of problem
>statement must require before next Buenos Aires meeting ?  or continue
>on this mailing list?
WG] it's always helpful to have a problem statement in a draft so that
people who build a list of drafts to review prior to the meeting can
review it ahead of time, but if you need to spend some time discussing it
on the list to flesh it out, that's certainly fine. Either way, you need a
clear problem statement and explanation of why your solution is necessary
or uniquely suited to solving your problem compared with other options
before the WG will be able to give you useful feedback at a meeting.

>so I think GRE and IPv4 in IPv6 tunnel are the
>comparison. These technology needs N^2 configuration to connect N with
>fullmesh. For example, in enterprise network, there are dual stack
>backbone and many dual stack stub network, and if backbone dual stack
>network operation move to IPv6 only operation, M46E-FP should contribute.
WG] Perhaps, but there are methods to reduce that mesh requirement through
the use of hub and spoke topologies. Indeed in the case of GRE, it's
possible to run routing protocols over those tunnels to make the network
look like a contiguously connected IPv4 network. In fact, this is exactly
what we did in the early days of the 6bone - we tunneled IPv6, BGP, and
ISIS over GRE in IPv4 to build an interconnected IPv6 "backbone" network
out of islands of IPv6-capable routers with IPv4-only connectivity between
them. Tunneling like this has a lot of limitations, but N^2 configuration
isn't necessarily one of them.

I think you have some work ahead of you to convince people that
interconnecting islands of legacy IPv4-only devices is best solved by
encapsulating it over IPv6 (regardless of the encap/decap mechanism)
rather than leaving the interconnecting network dual-stack until those
legacy devices can be eliminated. If leaving the network dual-stack is
impossible, I argue that the cleaner solution is using ALGs to translate
to IPv6 as close to those those legacy IPv4-only devices as possible so
that they can talk to the rest of the modern network and vice versa
without requiring large portions of the network to remain IPv4-capable
(and encapsulated over an IPv6-only backbone). The general goal in
sunset4, and I think in IETF in general, is to focus on IPv6 transition
technologies that increase deployment of IPv6 and enable network operators
to shrink or eliminate their dependence on IPv4. The end state is an
IPv6-only network, and things that indefinitely prolong the life of IPv4
and devices that require it, even if it's only in certain islands of the
network, don't provide much progress toward that end state.

Wes


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