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Re: Overlay broad patent on IPv6?


From: Shane Ronan <shane () ronan-online com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:31:03 -0400

This is actually a good idea. Roll out an IPV6 only network and only pass
out an IPV4 address if it's needed based on actual traffic.
On Jul 13, 2015 11:27 AM, "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

In article <CAP032TteiL3=k=
vs-KEdGU276fWGXqn1J9jmORLq8sW4xPE-Wg () mail gmail com> you write:
http://www.google.com/patents/US20130254423

This is not a patent.  It is a patent application.  Most applications
do not turn into patents, or at least not with all of the claims
included.

If you look at the claims, which are what matter, this is for a rather
specific hack in a broadband router which assigns a v4 address on the
fly when a DNS lookup from behind the router returns a result that
suggests that v4 traffic will happen, presumably by returning an A
record.

I can't imagine how anyone would misread this as a patent on IPv6.

R's,
John



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