RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

"Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@tndh.net> Wed, 02 April 2003 20:19 UTC

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From: Tony Hain <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
To: 'Jeroen Massar' <jeroen@unfix.org>, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: RE: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:02:53 -0800
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Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Tony Hain [mailto:alh-ietf@tndh.net] wrote:
> 
> > Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > > ... That's also why IE in XP doesn't support it.
> > 
> > Making claims that you know nothing about, only exposes 
> your lack of 
> > clue.
> 
> Fortunatly I don't have to resolve to personal accusations
> to get my point across. I cc:'d the people who really
> know how the stuff works so they could comment on these statements. :)

I was the IPv6 program manager for what ended up shipping in XP, and
literals in wininet didn't make it for lack of testing resources. 

Tony