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Re: IPv6 /64 links (was Re: ipv6 book recommendations?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Jun 22 21:26:26 2012

From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FE518AF.2090703@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:24:12 -0700
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jun 22, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote:

> Owen DeLong wrote:
> 
>>> Even though it may be easy to make end systems and local
>>> LANs v6 capable, rest, the center part, of the Internet
>>> keep causing problems.
> 
>> Those problems are getting solved more and more every day.
>> 
>> The rate of IPv6 deployment is rapidly accelerating at this point.
> 
> Remember that you wrote:
> 
>>>> The center part of the internet is the easiest part of
>>>> modification for IPv6 and is probably somewhere near 99%
>>>> complete at this point.
> 
> What do you mean something 99% complete is rapidly accelerating?
> 
> Is it a theory for time traveling?

You redefined center.

My definition of center when I claimed 99% was the major backbones
and core routers. That is the CENTER of the internet.

Different definition of center (yours) where the center includes everything
except the edge-most hosts, different metrics for completion and challenges.

Owen



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