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Re: IPv6 Confusion
From: Randy Bush <randy () psg com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:03:10 +0900
At Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:28:11 -0800, Tony Hain wrote:
While people frequently claim that auto-config is optional, there are implementations (including OS-X) that don't support anything else at this point. The basic message is that you should not assume that the host implementations will conform to what the network operator would prefer
s/network operator would prefer/specifications/
One last comment (because I hear "just more bits" a lot in the *nog community)... Approach IPv6 as a new and different protocol. If you approach it as "IPv4 with more bits", you will trip over the differences and be pissed off. If you approach it as a "different protocol with a name that starts with IP" and runs alongside IPv4 (like we used to do with decnet, sna, appletalk...), you will be comforted in all the similarities. You will also hear lots of noise about 'lack of compatibility', which is just another instance of refusing to recognize that this is really a different protocol. At the end of the day, it is a packet based protocol that moves payloads around.
unfortunately, this view leads to two internets, and one not reachable from the other. this is not very realistic from the business and user point of view. randy
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Confusion, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Leen Besselink (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion David Conrad (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Mark Andrews (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion David Conrad (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Zaid Ali (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Randy Bush (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Mark Andrews (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Nathan Ward (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Joe Provo (Feb 17)
- RE: IPv6 Confusion Tony Hain (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Randy Bush (Feb 17)
- RE: IPv6 Confusion Steven Lisson (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Randy Bush (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Brandon Galbraith (Feb 17)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Randy Bush (Feb 17)
- RE: IPv6 Confusion Frank Bulk (Feb 19)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Jack Bates (Feb 19)
- RE: IPv6 Confusion Frank Bulk (Feb 19)
- RE: IPv6 Confusion Mikael Abrahamsson (Feb 19)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Randy Bush (Feb 19)
- Re: IPv6 Confusion Bob Snyder (Feb 19)