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Re: NIST IPv6 document


From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:46:06 -0800

On 1/5/11 10:36 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:

On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:26 PM, Joe Greco wrote:

A bunch of very smart people have worked on IPv6 for a very long
time, and justification for /64's was hashed out at extended
length over the period of years.

Very smart people can and do come up with bad ideas, and IPv6 is a
textbook example of this phenomenon, heh.  I certainly bear my share
of the responsibility for this state of affairs by not getting
involved, and leaving the heavy lifting to others.

The reason for standing on the shoulders of giants should not be to piss
on them.



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