[182214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Overlay broad patent on IPv6?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shane Ronan)
Mon Jul 13 11:32:17 2015
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:31:03 -0400
From: Shane Ronan <shane@ronan-online.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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This is actually a good idea. Roll out an IPV6 only network and only pass
out an IPV4 address if it's needed based on actual traffic.
On Jul 13, 2015 11:27 AM, "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> In article <CAP032TteiL3=k=
> vs-KEdGU276fWGXqn1J9jmORLq8sW4xPE-Wg@mail.gmail.com> you write:
> >http://www.google.com/patents/US20130254423
>
> This is not a patent. It is a patent application. Most applications
> do not turn into patents, or at least not with all of the claims
> included.
>
> If you look at the claims, which are what matter, this is for a rather
> specific hack in a broadband router which assigns a v4 address on the
> fly when a DNS lookup from behind the router returns a result that
> suggests that v4 traffic will happen, presumably by returning an A
> record.
>
> I can't imagine how anyone would misread this as a patent on IPv6.
>
> R's,
> John
>