Authors: Matthew K. Mukerjee (Carnegie Mellon University), Dongsu Han (KAIST), Srini Seshan (Carnegie Mellon University), Peter Steenkiste (Carnegie Mellon University)
Deploying a new network architecture is difficult; after more than a decade of effort, we still haven't made the transition from IPv4 to IPv6.
The authors explore what it means to incrementally deploy a network architecture (that is, a new layer 3 protocol). They provide a framework for talking about incremental deployability by breaking the task into four parts:
- Picking an egress router from the source network.
- Picking an ingress router into the destination network.
- Getting to the egress router.
- Getting to the ingress router.
Using this framework, they compare 2 IPv6 deployment techniques (static tunnels and address mapping). Then they introduce two new deployment techniques made possible by recent innovations from the networking research community.
In summary: if incremental deployment is so easy ("just make tunnels!"), then why aren't we using IPv6 already? To realistically deploy a new layer 3 protocol, we must think carefully about how to do it, and the authors provide a framework for doing that.
Q: Are you concerned about n^2 at controllers?
A: Not really; if it's a problem, they can push the state to clients and then forget it.
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