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Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)
From: David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 23:03:57 -0700
On Oct 14, 2005, at 1:48 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
david.conrad () nominum com (David Conrad) writes: (shouldn't that be drc () iana org now?)
Not quite yet... :-)
if all you've got is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
I guess the question was what is the problem IPng was supposed to solve?
had ietf killed AAAA back when there wereeffectively zero ipv6 hosts on the 'net, and paid the apparently- high A6complexity penalty, we'd be talking about something else by now.
Yeah, like why didn't the Internet work anymore. A6 was simply a broken idea. It might have limped along in a vastly simplified form, but it would have changed how the DNS works in some really fundamental ways and I doubt those ways would ever have been acceptable.
as itis, the shim6 complexity penalty is even higher, and i don't think we'llever get to stop talking about this problem.
It is unfortunate that simplicity, both in terms of operations as well as protocol definition, appears to be secondary to meeting everybody's pet requirements. But perhaps that is only appearance.
Rgds, -drc
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- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 14)
- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 14)
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- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 15)
- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Crist Clark (Oct 14)
- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Daniel Roesen (Oct 14)
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- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Crist Clark (Oct 14)
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- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) william(at)elan.net (Oct 14)
- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) David Conrad (Oct 14)
- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Paul Vixie (Oct 15)
- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Bill Woodcock (Oct 17)
- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Tony Li (Oct 17)
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- Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news) Christopher L. Morrow (Oct 14)
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