Overlay broad patent on IPv6?

Mon Jul 13 15:31:03 UTC 2015

This is actually a good idea. Roll out an IPV6 only network and only pass
out an IPV4 address if it's needed based on actual traffic.
On Jul 13, 2015 11:27 AM, "John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> In article <CAP032TteiL3=k=
> vs-KEdGU276fWGXqn1J9jmORLq8sW4xPE-Wg at mail.gmail.com> you write:
> >http://www.google.com/patents/US20130254423
>
> This is not a patent.  It is a patent application.  Most applications
> do not turn into patents, or at least not with all of the claims
> included.
>
> If you look at the claims, which are what matter, this is for a rather
> specific hack in a broadband router which assigns a v4 address on the
> fly when a DNS lookup from behind the router returns a result that
> suggests that v4 traffic will happen, presumably by returning an A
> record.
>
> I can't imagine how anyone would misread this as a patent on IPv6.
>
> R's,
> John
>