Re: Protocol and format (Was: New Approach For Discussing IPv10.

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 19 April 2021 21:10 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Protocol and format (Was: New Approach For Discussing IPv10.
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It appears that Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> said:
>So instead of the Internet core routers knowing the IPaddress->ASN tables,
>they are given the ASN number and an opaque blob.
>
>This approach would require packets to be converted from network format
>(IPv6) to IPvX format at the network gateway and back again. And of course,
>packets would have to carry information that allows the IPv6
>source/destination to be recovered at the other end.

It sounds like every network gateway needs the equivalent of a full
set of routing tables to map address->ASN.  Am I missing something
or is that going to have a few scaling problems?

R's,
John