Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

[Jon Crowcroft]

its ironic you should send this today, when 12 million people in
london, england, had to learn to dial 8 digits instead of 7 because of
lack of foresight from the telephone regualtor when re-numbering less
than a decade ago - it is reported that 2--30% of calls today are
misdialled...

repeat after me:
variable length addresses dont stop you having to renumber

of courser, the DNS hides all this from many applications, in exactly
the same way that NATs dont.

j.