RE: [fw-wiz] Off topic: Any one know of a good IPV6 reference book?

From: Marcus J. Ranum (mjr_at_ranum.com)
Date: 07/28/03

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    To: "Irwin Lazar" <ILazar@burtongroup.com>, <firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:04:12 -0400

    Irwin Lazar wrote:
    >IPv6 would allow for a restoration of true end-to-end computing instead of requiring complex gateways, proxies, and NAT devices

    IPV6 is insane overcomplexity if that was the only problems we
    wanted to solve. We could have doubled the address size of V4,
    bumped the version number, and left-filled from zero. As far as the
    "route glut" problems that stimulated the original design of IPV6,
    we could have used conventions (e.g. something like CIDR addressing
    which hadn't been thought of when the V6 effort started) that could
    easily have solved those issues.

    Basically, the standards pukes are having fun playing their little
    games but none of it's really going to solve real problems. IPV6
    is gonna be like ISO protocols all over again: what if they gave
    a protocol and nobody came?

    mjr.

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