[184301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Newton)
Thu Oct 1 19:26:17 2015
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 00:26:13 +0100
From: Matthew Newton <mcn4@leicester.ac.uk>
To: Todd Underwood <toddunder@gmail.com>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 10:42:57PM +0000, Todd Underwood wrote:
> it's just a new addressing protocol that happens to not work with the rest
> of the internet. it's unfortunate that we made that mistake, but i guess
> we're stuck with that now (i wish i could say something about lessons
> learned but i don't think any one of us has learned a lesson yet).
Would be really interesting to know how you would propose
squeezing 128 bits of address data into a 32 bit field so that we
could all continue to use IPv4 with more addresses than it's has
available to save having to move to this new incompatible format.
:-)
Matthew
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