[AusNOG] IPv6

[Scott Howard]

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I'n not actually sure if you were intending this to be an April Fools joke
or not, but if I was you I'd start claiming it was...

  Scott


On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Chris Hurley <chris at minopher.net.au> wrote:

> While I appreciate the horse has well and truly bolted the BIGGEST mistake
> in IPv6 was not making it backwardly compatible with IPv4. If your a
> purest IPv6 is great but 'they' forget about legacy devices and the IDtenT
> issue. You might be Steven Hawkins but you have to bring the people with
> you, or at least allow for their level of understanding and willingness to
> pay.
>
> Which to be blunt is zero $.
>
> Second mistake was not making the NBN IPv6 only. This was a chance to draw
> a line in the sand, rather than say for an extreme example "You can run
> AppleTalk over it". Which under the current spec you technically can, mind
> you Apple has dropped this ages ago from their support protocols.
>
> So given we have run out of IPv4 addresses what is the NBN proposing?
>
> Or is the new NAT scheme the saviour? Rather than making some real hard
> calls.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Hurley BE (Elec), MBA
> Director
>
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