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Re: IPv6 Deployment

  • From: Randy Bush
  • Date: Wed May 30 20:38:11 2007

> what problem is it that IPv6 is actually supposed to solve?

that's an easy one.  in 1993-5, the press was screaming that we were
about to run out of ip space.  a half-assed design was released.  the
press stopped screaming.  victory was declared, everyone went home.

and, as usual, ops and engineering get to clean up the disaster.

randy