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

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Sat Nov 20 23:40:06 2004 
> It seems easier to try to back-port SCTP's multihoming features to TCP
> somehow than to deploy an entirely new transport protocol.  It's
> unfortunate this wasn't addressed at the time IPng was being designed.

this was tried.  there was almost going to be a "TCP6" which was capable
of signalling an endpoint-renumber event using in-band control messages.
alas, this approach was deemed overly complex, so TCP went unchanged.
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Paul Vixie