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Re: NIST IPv6 document

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Wed Jan 5 23:31:21 2011

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: Nanog Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 04:28:54 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4D254365.2050806@utc.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Jeff Kell wrote:

> I hesitate to write anything off to impossibility, having witnessed the 8=
 to 16 to 32 to 64-bit processor progression :)

Indeed; how quickly we forget, eh?

;>

> And the "depth" of infrastructure at which you can decide the traffic is
> bogus is much greater with IPv6.

/s/can/have the ability to

>  Most will end up on the target network anyway, no?


And that's the real point.

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Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid, with millions
of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but
just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

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