Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:23:01PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> In any event, in the year 2020 we're NOT going to run IPv4 as we know  
> it today. It's possible that the packets that travel over the wires  
> still look like regular IPv4/TCP/UDP packets and all the complexity  
> is pushed out to the application or political/economic layers, but  
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> that's not a possibility that appeals to me.

Is that layer 8?

Does anyone have a stateful firewall that works at that layer?

Cheers,
-- jra
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