It appears that Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
