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Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption
From: Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:28:52 -0700
On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Matthew Newton <mcn4 () leicester ac uk> wrote:
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 therestof 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.
I solved that problem a few years ago (well, kinda -- only for backend logging, not for routing): http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/net/InetAddresses.html#getCoercedIPv4Address(java.net.InetAddress) Damian
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