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To: "dnsop@cafax.se" <dnsop@cafax.se>
From: Måns Nilsson <mansaxel@sunet.se>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 01:34:35 +0100
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0303221352460.25388-100000@news.av8.net>
Sender: owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject: Re: [RETRANSMIT] Re: Radical Surgery proposal: stop doingreverse for IPv6.



--On Saturday, March 22, 2003 13:59:23 -0500 Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
wrote:

> There are no valid uses of reverse, outside of an untrustable convenience
> function.  No other valid uses have been demonstrated.

So stop using it. But stop making noise about it, because some of us value
convenience high. If you are to stop everything that is dangerous you might
start by deprecating C. 

"Warning: Knife may be sharp." 

-- 
Måns Nilsson            Systems Specialist
+46 70 681 7204         KTHNOC  MN1334-RIPE

We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.

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