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RE: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund () medline com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:07:08 +0000
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Harald Koch <chk () pobox com> wrote: The "common man" is becoming much more sophisticated in their networking requirements, and they need this stuff to just work. Please don't place artificially small limits just because you can't see a need. Probably because he got good advise from his father :)
Agreed, we need to not add any limits or conventions to the v6 protocol. Why commit to a /48 or /56 if the protocol offers many more options? Just write software to deal with all the possibilities. While the "common man" has become much more sophisticated in network REQUIREMENTS. They have probably become less KNOWLEDGEABLE about what those requirement are because they are getting used to just plugging it in and it works. Used to be that most Internet users knew if that had public/private or dynamic/static addresses because they had to. Today the most likely answer would be "who knows, I plugged in my Apple TV and it just worked" Steven Naslund
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- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion, (continued)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mark Andrews (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion John Curran (Jul 09)
- Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion) John Curran (Jul 09)
- Re: Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion) Ricky Beam (Jul 09)
- Re: Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion) Nicholas Suan (Jul 09)
- Re: Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion) John Curran (Jul 10)
- Re: Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion) Ricky Beam (Jul 10)
- Re: Also Facebook (was: Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion) Jared Mauch (Jul 10)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Matthew Kaufman (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 10)
- RE: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Naslund, Steve (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Karl Auer (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Ricky Beam (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Karl Auer (Jul 10)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Owen DeLong (Jul 10)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Owen DeLong (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mike Hammett (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Jared Mauch (Jul 09)
- RE: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Naslund, Steve (Jul 09)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Mark Tinka (Jul 10)