Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-03.txt

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Mon, 22 October 2018 22:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-03.txt
To: Ole Troan <otroan@employees.org>
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Ole Troan wrote on 22/10/2018 08:07:
> Or make a very vague statement about "disabling IPv4 completely on a
> link, ensures that no IPv4 state is required in the network or in
> hosts."
There's no need to be vague: IPv4 state is not meaningfully maintained 
on networks and IPv4 state on hosts which aren't talking ipv4 is not 
going to extend much further than increasing the size of arp caches, 
i.e. the overhead is inconsequential.

Nick