From: Pekka Savola (pekkas_at_no.spam)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 13:20:39 PST
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 Internet-Drafts-at-ietf.org wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>
>
> Title : Application Aspects of IPv6 Transition
> Author(s) : M. Shin et al.
> Filename : draft-shin-ngtrans-application-transition-00.txt
> Pages : 12
> Date : 15-Nov-01
>
> The document specifies application aspects of IPv6 transition. As
> we deploy IPv6 networks, we should consider IPv6 applications
> transition in a host, as well as network transition. This document
> clarifies the requirements we have in transition period between
> IPv4 applications and IPv6 applications, and also provides
> application programmers and/or users with guidelines to use
> applications without confusion, when various ngtrans mechanisms are
> applied. This document does not try to define any new protocol.
> The proposals contained in this document are based on the work of
> the Ngtrans working group.
This does not discuss the mess with network daemons and such in the
multiprotocol environment. That is, should one only use AF_INET6 and let
IPv4 users connect using mapped addresses or what?
.. too bad there isn't much of a consensus on this subject, I think ..
Also, there's much more to it to 4.3 than using getaddrinfo for getting
the names.. That is, using sockaddr_storage and friends because you
cannot know how much space you have to allocate for the addresses,
sockaddr_in or sockaddr_in6.
-- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords
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