Re: A Plea for Architectural & Specification Stability with IPv6

RJ Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com> Thu, 13 March 2014 18:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: A Plea for Architectural & Specification Stability with IPv6
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On 13  Mar 2014, at 14:19 , Erik Nordmark wrote:
> Below you ...
> Is this a reference to draft-carpenter-6man-why64?

It is a reaction to some folks' comments on the IPv6 list
in the past fortnight suggesting major changes to IID-related
IPv6 specifications.

Ran