IPv6 Internet

Sat Jan 4 22:22:05 UTC 1997

Randall Atkinson <rja at inet.org> wrote:

>There are varying opinions on whether IPv6 will turn out to be the
>OSI of the 90s.  There are also varying opinions on whether it is desirable
>for IPv6 to fly or not.  Some believe that for IPv6 to fly operationally, the
>"6+2+8" proposal needs to be adopted.

Let me put it this way -- IPv6 does not fix _any_ hard problems
(routing stability, etc).  It is about as useful as IPv4 with a
"more address bits" option.

--vadim