Re: Upgrading to IPv6 (was: Re: (ngtrans) including ipv4 address space into ipv6 address space)

From: D. J. Bernstein (djb_at_no.spam)
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 17:39:43 PST


Nathan Lutchansky writes:
> I am curious why you have added IPv6 support to your own software if
> you're convinced that it will never be useful to the vast majority of
> your users.

Wow. Where do you get these ideas?

I would like to see IPv6 succeed, simply because static addresses make
robust network applications easier to write. The fact that a modem burp
destroys a user's ssh login session, for example, can be traced directly
to the fact that IPv4 addresses are expensive.

If, however, the IPv6 transition plan remains at this idiotic ``people
climb mountains'' level of development, then IPv6 will not succeed in
the foreseeable future.

---Dan



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