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Re: A Plea for Architectural & Specification Stability with IPv6

Hesham Soliman <hesham@elevatemobile.com> Sun, 16 March 2014 12:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: A Plea for Architectural & Specification Stability with IPv6
From: Hesham Soliman <hesham@elevatemobile.com>
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>>
>>Continued tinkering with IPv6 - especially tinkering with it to make it
>>look more and more like IPv4 in order to reduce imagined "barriers to
>>adoption" - will just erode IPv6's long-term advantages by eliminating
>>the simplification, robustness, and benefits that IPv6 as it is today
>>*does* provide -- and it won't lead to adoption anyway, because lack of
>>adoption is not a technical issue.

=> Thank you for this sentence, whoever said it! I have been working on
deployment issues with operators and I never saw this imagined barrier. If
anything, I see operations people excited about learning a new technology.
Maybe I was lucky. 

Hesham

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