On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:29:39PM -0700, Tony Hain wrote:
David Conrad wrote:
....
IPv6 _is_ IPv4 with more bits and it is being deployed that way.
No it is not, and you need to stop claiming that because it confuses people
into limiting their thinking to the legacy IPv4 deployment model.
... {elided}
If there is research to do towards this, it will be in the arena of social
engineering. Once it is clear how to stop operators from deciding the most
expedient thing to do is embed the current IP address into some
configuration, then engineering can build the tool to enforce that. It is
very difficult to get people to realize that the accumulation of short term
cost savings will turn on them as a sizable cost when changes become
necessary.
Tony
beating this dead horse...
actually, David is profoundly wrong. IPv6 is an entirely
new address family - it has erie similarities to IPv4, but
is not backward compatable.
--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).
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