[Sis-csi] IPv6?

Wesley Eddy weddy at grc.nasa.gov
Thu Jun 7 15:08:42 EDT 2007


On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:02:15PM -0500, Schneider, Larry wrote:
>  
> Mobile IP is included and standardized in IPv6 whereas in IPv4 it is
> supported only under proprietary solutions.

I am all for IPv6, but this statement is incorrect.  Mobile IPv4 is at
the same IETF standards-track level as Mobile IPv6, proposed standard,
as specified in RFC3344.  That said, Mobile IPv6 does offer several more
features and performance optimizations than Mobile IPv4:
http://www.nav6tf.org/documents/nav6tf.analysis_ipv6_features_and_usability.pdf

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Wesley M. Eddy
Verizon Federal Network Systems



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