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Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
From: John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:44:04 -0500
On Feb 17, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:08:50 EST, John Curran said:Rather than saying 240/4 is unusable for another three years, perhaps the service provider community could make plain that this space needs to be made usableIn other words, you're going to tell Granny she needs to upgrade to Windows 8 and/or replace her CPE because you couldn't get your act together and deploy IPv6 - even though her friends at the bridge club who are customers of your clued competitor didn't have to do a thing.
Not, what I'm saying is that we've been considering this matter for more than 10 years, and as old as her machine is, it would have been patched once since then if we had bothered to note that "Reserved for Future Use" should be treated as unicast space. The same argument applies now: unless there is a reason to save 240/8, it should at least be redefined to be usable in some manner so that we don't repeat the same argument 5 years from now. /John
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- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Mark Andrews (Feb 17)
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- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Valdis . Kletnieks (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... John Curran (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Steven Bellovin (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Jack Bates (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... John Curran (Feb 17)
- RE: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... George Bonser (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Owen DeLong (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 18)
- Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer... Owen DeLong (Feb 18)
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