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

"Fredrik Nyman" <fredrik@packetfront.com> Thu, 03 April 2003 11:00 UTC

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From: Fredrik Nyman <fredrik@packetfront.com>
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To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 12:50:44 +0200
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On 2 Apr 2003 at 18:10, Keith Moore wrote:

> > The lack of IPv6 literal address support in the version of wininet.dll
> > that shipped with Windows XP was for reasons of engineering
> > expediency, 
> 
> in other words, MS deliberately shipped a broken product.

Oh, look, release notes, known issue statements, bugtracker entries...

Seems like everybody is deliberately shipping broken products...

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Fredrik Nyman
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