Re: [Int-area] introducing a new IPv4 option [was RE: [BEHAVE] Revealing identity of TCP client connection when sharing IPv4 address]

jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Tue, 05 October 2010 23:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Int-area] introducing a new IPv4 option [was RE: [BEHAVE] Revealing identity of TCP client connection when sharing IPv4 address]
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    > From: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>

    > At the IP and Transport level functionality, the IPv4 Internet is
    > essentially frozen somewhere in the 1990's.

It's certainly difficult to introduce change, but not impossible - one just
has to be smarter, and be prepared to live with some ugliness (and
non-optimality) in some aspects of one's protocol.

	Noel