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In message <[email protected]>, Iljitsch van Beijn um writes: > >On 7-jul-2005, at 0:18, Joe Abley wrote: > >> With great hindsight it would have been nice if the multi6/shim6 >> design exercise had come *during* the IPv6 design exercise, rather >> than afterwards: we might have ended up with a protocol/addressing >> model that accommodated both the address size problem and also the >> DFZ state bloat issue. Oh well. > >Well, maybe I'm too optimistic here, but I believe that if a real >solution to the DFZ problem presents itself, the IETF will bend over >backwards and then some to shoehorn it into IP. > There were people who tried, way back when. We were outvoted... (The situation in the IETF has indeed changed.) --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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