Re: IPv6 support in firewalls

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

Darren Reed wrote:
> The only way that they can plan to do this is by specifying
> that IPv6 is used - there is no other alternative.

That's because nobody's looking for one. So IPV6 becomes
both the question and the answer.

This is remarkably familiar for those of us who survived
the early days of the OSI wars. There was no alternative to
OSI, either. Except for the simple little protocol that
just worked.

Left fill with zeroes, bump the version number, double the
address space size, and let 'er rip. Sure, there'd be some
details to sort out, but in terms of the complexity of
cutting over to IPV6 it'd be a weekend job. The problem is
that the people who COULD do it don't WANT to do it
because they all want to be part of the clever bunch who
wrote The Next Big Standard (by the way, that same
thinking was what torpedoed OSI: one standard committee
too many...)

mjr. 

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