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Re: quietly....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (david raistrick)
Tue Feb 1 15:09:11 2011

Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 15:08:22 -0500 (EST)
From: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <F761F54B-BC24-4B69-AFDB-561BA5BB7D04@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> What's the point of switching to IPv6 if it repeats all the IPv4 
> mistakes only with bigger addresses?
>
> If you like NAT IPv4 is the place to be, it'll only get more and more.

It's argument like this that has lead to this moment.  Instead of 
discussing "how can the next generation addressing scheme support the 
needs of Internet consumers today and tomorrow" we tell people "if you 
don't like it, use v4"


Guess what?  We're still using v4.

..david


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