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Re: comments on ipv6-transport-guidelines-00
Alain Durand writes: > We could be pedantic and say: > "the server software has to be dual stack, configured to listen for IPv6 > traffic, on a dual stack host where IPv6 is turned on, an a network > annoncing and routing Ipv6 packets to the big Internet...." > I think that "dual stack" is a nice shortcut that everybody understand. No. Many computers are running ``dual stack'' operating systems, but very few computers are ``routing IPv6 packets to the big Internet,'' This is a huge difference. You can't simply gloss over it in a protocol spec. See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html for further discussion. ---D. J. Bernstein, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.