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[IPv6]Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-herbert-deprecate-eh-00.txt

Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> Fri, 02 January 2026 00:54 UTC

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On 30/12/2025 18:54, Mark Smith wrote:
> If IPv6 EHs are such a big problem, why haven't IPv4 options been 
> removed decades ago?
> 

You mean formally deprecated them, or rendering them useless?

The former indeed never happened. The latter did.

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Fernando Gont
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