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Re: A Plea for Architectural & Specification Stability with IPv6

"Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com> Thu, 13 March 2014 16:20 UTC

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From: "Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com>
To: RJ Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: A Plea for Architectural & Specification Stability with IPv6
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On Mar 13, 2014, at 5:49 AM, RJ Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> 	The IETF keeps changing IPv6.  Clearly IPv6 is not yet
> 	ready for widespread use until they stop changing 
> 	the specifications.

With respect, if the changes you mentioned are considered fundamental changes to IPv6, the IETF has spent the past 25 years changing IPv4. Nobody anywhere should consider deploying IPv4 until we finish changing it.

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