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Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications"....


From: david raistrick <drais () icantclick org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:58:57 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, Mark Andrews wrote:

oh, and then make that work inside a typical F500 corp network with
restrictions on inbound and outbound ports, no admin user access to
desktop machines, etc.

And if they are developing a product for the company there are
procedures to get the changes needed to do the development.


...only if v6 support is on their development roadmap.

For our latest released product, which had a 3 month timeline, there definitely would have been no software engineering support for building v6 support into a server framework that never had to support it before, nor 2 (or 3) client frameworks.

...david (who supports a bunch of software engineers for one of many arms of an F500 company)


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