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[RAM] Re: Renumbering impossibility: TSL/SSL certs, DNS delegation etc.

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 06 August 2007 09:10 UTC

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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:10:01 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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Subject: [RAM] Re: Renumbering impossibility: TSL/SSL certs, DNS delegation etc.
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:51:00AM +0200,
 Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote 
 a message of 44 lines which said:

> with proper planning in the setup phase (and that means "not putting
> IP addresses in places that should have server names"), renumbering
> is not painless,

And if programmers were doing their jobs properly (abstraction,
encapsulation, use of well-defined APIs, etc), moving applications to
IPv6 (or any sort of IP/loc separation) would be trivial.

But the problem statement we refer to is about the real world :-(



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