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Re: shim6 (was Re: IPv6 news)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Mon Oct 17 12:08:35 2005

Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 09:03:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20051015141406.67B1E11426@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


      On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Paul Vixie wrote:
    > ...the necessary evil called CIDR.  evil because it locked customers 
    > into their providers, entrenched the existing large providers 
    > against future providers, and made it hard or impossible for the 
    > average endusing company to multihome.

Uh, perhaps I'm being dense, but how does moving masking off byte 
boundaries have any of the above effects?

                                -Bill


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