[170294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul S.)
Wed Mar 26 00:05:02 2014
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:04:32 +0900
From: "Paul S." <contact@winterei.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4AA4280D-D6EF-4751-9E0F-45BD6D03F10D@consultant.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/26/2014 午後 12:31, Cutler James R wrote:
> Wow, what a lot of NANOG traffic about IPv6 readiness for SMTP!
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> Please explain my misunderstanding on the following:
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> 1. IPv6 is a Routing Layer Protocol (with some associated helpers, like RA, ND, DHCP-PD, and the like).
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> 2. SMTP is an Application Layer Protocol, supposedly independent of Routing and lower layers of the protocol stack. Various communities have added connection initiation requirements that sometimes impinge upon layer 3 by requiring name/address correlations in DNS and none of which depend directly on technical aspects of layer 3 addressing. [ignoring obsolescent MTA implementations]
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> 3. Arguing about IPv6 in the context of requirements upon SMTP connections is playing that uncomfortable game with one’s own combat boots. And not particularly productive.
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> I look forward to furthering my education.
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> James R. Cutler
> James.cutler@consultant.com
> PGP keys at http://pgp.mit.edu
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+1, very well put.
