North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: CIDR FAQ
At 5:04 AM 8/17/95, Yakov Rekhter wrote: > >In IPv6 there is a notion of "IPv4 compatible" addresses. These are >IPv6 addresses (128 bits) that have IPv4 address as their low order 32 >bits and the rest (96 bits) are zero. ... > >What you said is correct only if hosts use IPv6 addresses that >are not "IPv4 compatible". But transition with hosts that don't have >IPv4 compatible addresses is quite messy. Yakov; If you have an IPv6 capable host, why use "IPv4 compatible" addresses? Why not use an algorithmic translation that includes a provider prefix? It would seem to me that any IPv6 host should have the capability to algorithmically translate its IPv4 address, preferably dynamically. --Kent
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