The End-To-End Internet (was Re: Blocking MX query)

Fri Sep 7 06:35:24 UTC 2012

On Sep 6, 2012, at 23:30 , Masataka Ohta <mohta at necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote:

> Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> 
>>> the DNS and won't discover anything about the DNS that can't be had
>>> via getaddrinfo() until long after its too late redefine the protocol
>>> in terms of seeking SRV records.
>> 
>> Oh, sure, I get that.  One of the problems I've had with the "end to
>> end NAT" argument is exactly that I can't see how it's any more
>> deployable than IPv6, for exactly this reason.
> 
> The easiest part of the deployment is to modify end systems.
> 

Then why is IPv6 deployment happening faster in the internet core than
at the edge?

The real world seems to defy your claims.

Owen