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Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Sat Nov 20 20:49:59 2004 
> How much would it add to the pain of the v4-v6 transition, to just bite
> the bullet and do tcp-sctp at the same time?  I'd sure rather be a
> network troubleshooter going through that than living with NAT forever.

it's the delta between the finite and the infinite.  sctp requires a flag
day whereas nat can be deployed incrementally.  sctp isn't going to happen,
at least not on the scale that nat has happened or that ipv6 will happen.