[ih] Why did location/identity separation not happen? (Was: Internet without entrenched factions?)

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 20-May-26 12:07, Tony Li wrote:
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> Brian,
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>> Much the same is true of ILNP. But I don't see either of them flourishing in the foreseeable future. There are, as Tony pointed out, 250,000 BGP4 routes in the IPv6 Internet, and about 35,000 IPv6 autonomous systems, which means somewhere between 35,000 and 250,000 significant vested interests in the currently deployed IPng addressing and routing system. We know how to deploy incremental change on a system that big, but not how to deploy a revolution.
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> To be fair, ILNP can be deployed incrementally, but it is only beneficial when both endpoint domains support it.

Yes, and SHIM6 had that property too. One reason NAT44 deployed was that it only needed support at one end.

   Brian

> ILNP cannot flourish until someone demonstrates a killer app for it. And so far, people have been able to fake mobility well enough that ILNP is not yet compelling.
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> Cheers,
> Tony
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