Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

[Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>]

On 10/20/2010 7:27 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
> * Stream Control Transport Protocol, first spec'd in 2000 (couldn't
>    be deployed widely in IPv4 because of NATs)
"because of NATs" s/b "because certain parties refused to acknowledge 
that encapsulation of SCTP in UDP would have operational advantages 
sufficient to outweigh the disadvantages".

SCTP only gets you 90% of the way there, but it is a lot closer than 
today's TCP is.

Matthew Kaufman