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1. Comment - The IPv6 experience: Are you experienced yet?

   (Mar 14, 2008 - 10:11 AM)

   I don't understand, TBL desgined an application layer protocol that is completely transparent to this discussion. Recall,
   L0 = physical (wires or fibre)
   L1 = Data link (Ethernet, FDDI)
   L2 = Network (IPv4/IPv6)
   L3 = Transport (TCP/UDP)
   L4 = Session (TCP/UDP)
   L5 = Presentation (Sockets)
   L6 = Application (HTTP/FTP)
   
   I should mention, before I get flamed, my examples at layer 4 are a bit of a wash, but well so is the seven layer model (I'm a 5 layer guy myself). Anyway TBL is so irrelevent to this discussion I honestly can't think of a good analogy to describe how bad using TBL is.
   
   Its an interesting idea, put the smallish networks on IPv6 since they won't have trouble with the migration thus buying time for the bigish networks. Where I see the biggish migrane (sorry, I had to) is that business will put off doing the updates until the last possible minute, recall Y2K?
   
   We might as well just bite the bullet and wait until the RIRs say "sorry dude, I just don't have any more IPv4s that I can give you, but how about a nice /48 IPv6 block?" It'll cause a few late nights for network engineers like myself, but hey, maybe I'll get a raise for all that extra work... ;)