Subject: (mobile-ip) MIPv4 or MIPv6

From: "Y. C. Tay" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 12:50:46 +0800 (SST)

>>From: Stephen Hui <[email-masked]>
>>Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 10:16:16 -0700
>>
>>There's some debate here as to whether or not Mobile IP really 
>>needs to be supported, and if this needs to be done in the IPv4 
>>timeframe, or if it can wait until IPv6.  

It is possible that IPv6 will be as unsuccessful as Ada,
and IPv4 as persistent as Cobol, 
so I believe that mobility support should use the current IPv4 infrastructure.  
In turn, MIPv4 can be adapted to help extend the IPv4 address space
(see http://cram.iscs.nus.edu.sg:8080/cram/la_ietf.htm).

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