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Re: [v4v6interim] "IPv4->IPv6 is hard"

Ed Jankiewicz <edward.jankiewicz@sri.com> Fri, 17 October 2008 18:28 UTC

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yup.  I really meant to say "right now" and even for the near future, 
don't we still expect most servers/applications to be dual-stack rather 
than IPv6-only?  My point was there are more pressing problems to solve, 
while it would be nice for all variations to work, some can be deferred.

Randy Bush wrote:
>> "...folks I work with would like to see solutions in that space, but it
>> is certainly not a high priority.  For the foreseeable future, it does
>> not seem critical to enable an IPv4-only host to talk to an arbitrary
>> number of IPv6-only hosts/servers/applications.  There really aren't any
>> to worry about."
>>     
>
> we hope there will be
>
> randy
>
>
>   

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Ed Jankiewicz - SRI International
Fort Monmouth Branch Office - IPv6 Research 
Supporting DISA Standards Engineering Branch
732-389-1003 or  ed.jankiewicz@sri.com 

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