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Re: moving to IPv6

  • From: Jerry Scharf
  • Date: Sat Nov 01 18:25:54 1997 
> if global name to 'address' resolution is desired, then the directory
> mechanism protocols, currently dns, need to be translated at address
> and/or name domain boundaries.  some nats currently do this.

You opened it, so I can't resist. What happens to Secure DNS in this case? The 
whole idea of "tracable to the root" signing goes out the window in this case.

> 
> are there other protocols/data which *must* be translated at boundaries?
> should kink such as cuseeme be left to die?

(Rotting in steaming piles on the shoulder of the information superhighway?)

I think these protocols will need to be fixed or only run in limited areas of 
the Internet.

> 
> randy

jerry