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Re: Backward Compatibility Re: 202401100645.AYC Re: IPv4 address block


From: Christopher Hawker <chris () thesysadmin au>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:05:35 +1100

Wow... There is some serious learning about the internet to be done here!

When Randy was deploying IPv6 across the IIJ backbone, I was running around
in kindergarten. I didn't even know what the internet was back then.

Amazing what can happen in 26 years...

Regards,
Christopher Hawker

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 09:35, Abraham Y. Chen <aychen () avinta com> wrote:

Hi, Randy:

1)    " ... dual-stack mess ...   it was intended. it was the original
transition plan. ":

    Perhaps you are too young to realize that the original IPv6 plan was
not designed to be backward compatible to IPv4, and Dual-Stack was
developed (through some iterations) to bridge the transition between IPv4
and IPv6? You may want to spend a few moments to read some history on this.


Regards,


Abe (2024-01-12 17:34)



On 2024-01-12 00:11, Randy Bush wrote:

We don't need to extend IPv4, we need to figure out why we are in this
dual-stack mess, which was never intended, and how to get out of it.

it was intended.  it was the original transition plan.  like many things
about ipv6, it could have been a bit better thought out.

randy




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