@techreport{ietf-sipp-ipae-transition-00, number = {draft-ietf-sipp-ipae-transition-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-sipp-ipae-transition/00/}, author = {Bob Hinden and Robert E. Gilligan and Erik Nordmark}, title = {{IPAE: The SIPP Interoperability and Transition Mechanism}}, pagetotal = 60, year = 1994, month = mar, day = 16, abstract = {The Internet is experiencing growing pains. The phenomenal success of TCP/IP -- the exponential growth in the size of the global IP-connected Internet and the ever increasing number of systems deployed on isolated networks running the Internet protocols -- is likely to bring about two serious problems in the near future. First, since the IP routing system has little hierarchical structure it may not scale much above its current size. Secondly, since the 32-bit IP address space is assigned in an inefficient manner, it may be exhausted within a few years. These problems have given rise to a number of proposals for revising the Internet Protocol. SIPP -- the Simple Internet Protocol Plus -- is one proposal for a next generation Internet Protocol. If SIPP, or any next generation IP, is to be successful, it must provide an easy mechanism by which hosts and routers implementing the new protocol can continue to interoperate with systems using the existing IP version. Also, there must be mechanism to transition the Internet to the new protocol without disrupting operation of the Internet.}, }