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Re: NIST IPv6 document

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Thu Jan 6 18:29:33 2011

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: Nanog Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:29:13 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4D25F279.5000204@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Jack Bates wrote:

> It is not the intentional that we should fear, but the unintentional.

This is the single largest issue with IPv6 and the whole ND mess in a nutsh=
ell - unintentional DoS becomes much more likely.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>

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.

			  -- Alan Kay



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