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Re: Deprecating IPv6 (Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sat, 03 June 2017 13:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: Deprecating IPv6 (Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00)
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On Jun 3, 2017, at 12:45, Simon Hobson <linux@thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> unlearning and relearning

Reminds me of the story where a kid learns how to roast a duck and the mother explains that to roast a duck, you have to cut off a bit at the ends before roasting.  Kid asked ma why, and she didn’t know; her grandma had always told her so.  Long story compressed, it turned out grand-grandma had an oven that was too short for a whole duck, and the cutting routine survived through the family even though today’s ovens are larger.

But the whole discussion here is backwards, because we stopped cutting our ducks a long time ago.
Changing the established IPv6 operational practices so they look more like duck-cutting for IPv4 doesn’t make sense.

Grüße, Carsten

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