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Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption


From: Matthew Newton <mcn4 () leicester ac uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 00:26:13 +0100

On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:42:57PM +0000, Todd Underwood wrote:
it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with the rest
of the internet.  it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but i guess
we're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons
learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet).

Would be really interesting to know how you would propose
squeezing 128 bits of address data into a 32 bit field so that we
could all continue to use IPv4 with more addresses than it's has
available to save having to move to this new incompatible format.

:-)

Matthew


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