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Re: And Now for Something Completely Different (was Re: IPv6 news)

  • From: Tony Li
  • Date: Sun Oct 16 04:22:12 2005 


Certainly does. Apparently this or a similar idea was suggested
back in

1997, and is the root origin of the 64 bits for host address space,

according to Christian Huitema, in his IPv6 book -

http://www.huitema.net/ipv6.asp.



A google search found the draft :



"GSE - An Alternate Addressing Architecture for IPv6"

M. O'Dell, INTERNET DRAFT, 1997



http://www.caida.org/outreach/bib/networking/entries/odell97GSE.xml





Note that GSE is in no way a NAT, so is very different than David's
proposal.



GSE also has a direct impact on all implementations (e.g., only use
the identifier bits in the TCP pseudo-header, so that is also an all-
implementations change. Further, that is a flag day, worldwide, even
for non-multi-homed sites.



Tony