Re: [Mip4] FW: I-D ACTION:draft-tsirtsis-v4v6-mipv4-01.txt

[Vijay Devarapalli <vijay.devarapalli at azairenet.com>]

hi Kent,

Kent Leung (kleung) wrote:
> Hi Vijay.  It's not just the client, but the network infrastructure such
> as HA, AAA, provisioning system, logging, accounting, OAM, etc. that can
> be leveraged to support IPv6 with minimum change.  

you are upgrading all of them for IPv6 services
anyway. which of the above are you not upgrading
when you deploy IPv6 services?

> What's wrong with
> MIPv4 to support IPv6/IPv4 and MIPv6 to support IPv/IPv4 depending on
> the environment of deployment?  

if you put it that way, there is nothing wrong
with it. but folks have been using the
"incremental update" argument to justify this
work. I don't agree with it.

Vijay

> Kent
>
> > the clients are being upgraded for IPv6 services anyway. 
> > whats special about upgrading the clients from MIPv4 to MIPv6?
> >
> > Vijay


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