[6767] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Jan 4 17:42:24 1997
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 14:22:05 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu, rja@inet.org
Randall Atkinson <rja@inet.org> wrote:
>There are varying opinions on whether IPv6 will turn out to be the
>OSI of the 90s. There are also varying opinions on whether it is desirable
>for IPv6 to fly or not. Some believe that for IPv6 to fly operationally, the
>"6+2+8" proposal needs to be adopted.
Let me put it this way -- IPv6 does not fix _any_ hard problems
(routing stability, etc). It is about as useful as IPv4 with a
"more address bits" option.
--vadim
