[184427] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Oct 2 22:51:29 2015
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Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:51:26 -0500
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Todd Underwood <toddunder@gmail.com>
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>> None of them does what you propose =E2=80=94 Smooth seamless communicati=
on between
>> an IPv4-only host and an IPv6-only host.
>=20
> i view this point/question as an assertion by owen as follows:
>=20
> "it was never possible to design a smooth transition and that's why we
> gave up on it."
>=20
> furthermore, it's a also the following assertion:
>=20
> "it was never possible to expand our address space while allowing for
> an actual migration."
>=20
> if you believe that, then you end up in advocacy land. if you don't
> believe that but you see lots of people who gave up on the design
> process early, then you understand why we're here.
indeed. a tragedy.
randy
