On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Keith Moore wrote: > > Who wants an application that can work _only_ with IPv6? Nobody. > > strongly disagree. IPv6 provides capabilities that simply don't > exist in IPv4 - among them the ability to provide large numbers of > stable addresses. In other words, IPv6 enables applications that > cannot be widely deployed under IPv4, and for that reason it's > entirely reasonable to write applications for IPv6 only.
In this context, we're talking about an application that already existed for IPv4; entirely new kind of applications _might_ be written for IPv6 only at some point, but that's an entirely different issue. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
