[82060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Jul 8 15:43:00 2005
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 13:38:04 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6C6003E6-684F-4301-ADC6-453C3D2E9564@muada.com>; from Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> on Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:23:01PM +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:23:01PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> In any event, in the year 2020 we're NOT going to run IPv4 as we know
> it today. It's possible that the packets that travel over the wires
> still look like regular IPv4/TCP/UDP packets and all the complexity
> is pushed out to the application or political/economic layers, but
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> that's not a possibility that appeals to me.
Is that layer 8?
Does anyone have a stateful firewall that works at that layer?
Cheers,
-- jra
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