A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : Port Restricted IP Address Assignment
Author(s) : G. Bajko, T. Savolainen, M. Boucadair, P. Levis
Filename : draft-bajko-pripaddrassign-00.txt
Pages : 19
Date : 2009-2-3
When IPv6 was designed, the assumption was that the transition from
IPv4 to IPv6 will occur way before the exhaustion of the available IPv4 address pool. The unexpected growth of the IPv4 Internet and
the hesitation and technical difficulties to deploy IPv6 indicates
that the transition may take much longer than originally
anticipated.
It is expected that communication using IPv6 addresses will increase
during the next few years to come at the expense of communication
using IPv4 addresses. The Internet should reach a safety point in
the future, where the number of IPv4 public addresses in use at a
given time begins decreasing. It is very likely that the IPv4 public
address pool currently available at IANA will be exhausted before
the internet reaches this safety point. This creates a need to
prolong the lifetime of the available IPv4 addresses.
This document defines methods to allocate the same IPv4 address to
multiple hosts, with the aim to prolong the availability of public
IPv4 addresses, possibly for as long as it takes for IPv6 to take
over the demand for IPv4.
A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bajko-pripaddrassign-00.txt
Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader
implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the
Internet-Draft.
- <ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bajko-pripaddrassign-00.txt>
-
_______________________________________________
I-D-Announce@ietf.org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce
Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html
or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt
