On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:54:31PM -0800, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > The real problem is that many people still believe the old "IPv6 > hype"... that IPv6 would bring us automatic address configuration
Tried getting a /24 lately, nevermind a /22? Or is our future NAT, all the way down? > (solved even more completely by DHCP for IPv4), security (through IPSEC, > which works just as well in IPv4), multicast (which won't be happening Not part of the spec. Especially, opportunistic encryption. > in IPv6 either, for most of the same reasons), etc. > > Everything that was important enough to get done before IPv6 was fully > deployed has already happened, and everything that wasn't, won't. > Nothing magic is coming. > > Not even flow labels... which don't really help for the same reason that > core routers can't do flow caching for IPv4. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
