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Re: NIST IPv6 document
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 21:03:43 -0800
If you define a new protocol version as one that means devices with older protocol generations of firmware/software may not interoperate reliably with devices with new protocol generations of firmware/software, then IPv4 as we know it today is probably at least "IPv7" - address classes was a generational change requiring software/firmware updates (compare addressing in rfc760 verses rfc791), as was classful+subnets and then CIDR. Regards, Mark.
I think it's defined, instead, in terms of incompatible changes to the content of the packet header. Owen
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- Re: NIST IPv6 document Dobbins, Roland (Jan 07)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document TJ (Jan 07)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 07)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Jeff Wheeler (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Joe Greco (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Kevin Oberman (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Robert E. Seastrom (Jan 07)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Mark Smith (Jan 08)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 08)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Owen DeLong (Jan 06)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document sthaug (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Dobbins, Roland (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Leen Besselink (Jan 05)
- Re: NIST IPv6 document Philip Dorr (Jan 05)