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Re: can we please postpone the ipv6 post-mortem?

2010-10-11 09:30:48

Le 8 oct. 2010 à 19:06, Phillip Hallam-Baker a écrit :

What if the key to IPv6 deployment is the realization that IPv6 can only be 
deployed after we have solved the IPv4 address exhaustion problem?

IPv6 HAS ALREADY BEEN deployed where there was absolutely no address exhaustion 
problem.
RFC 5569, at least its introduction, is useful reference material in this 
respect, to be read or re-read.

The key is IMHO to keep things as simple as they can be in each particular 
context. 

Regards,
RD



On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:02 PM, james woodyatt <jhw(_at_)apple(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
everyone--

IPv6 may have been born with a developmental disability, but we're not 
dealing with a corpse yet.  The patient is still alive, getting better, and 
with a bit of love and proper care, might yet grow up to make better and 
brighter music than IPv4.

Maybe I'm being overly sentimental and using anthropomorphism inappropriately 
here, but really folks-- isn't it a bit unseemly to be arguing over how we 
went so "wrong" with IPv6-- and how we could do ever so much better the 
*next* time we get to reinvent the Internet if we avoid all the killing 
mistakes we made in bringing IPv6 up-- while there are, today, more people 
than ever before taking what are perceived to be enormous risks actually 
making the v4->v6 transition start to happen?


--
james woodyatt <jhw(_at_)apple(_dot_)com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering


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