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

From: David Lang (david.lang_at_digitalinsight.com)
Date: 07/28/03

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    To: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@ranum.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:45:58 -0700 (PDT)

    also there are a lot of people who like hiding the endpoint of the
    communication.

    as soon as IPv6 gets in use (if it ever does) expect the exact same NAT
    and proxy gateways to be used with it as are used with IPv4

    David Lang

    On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Marcus J. Ranum wrote:

    > Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 19:04:12 -0400
    > From: Marcus J. Ranum <mjr@ranum.com>
    > To: Irwin Lazar <ILazar@burtongroup.com>, firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
    > Subject: RE: [fw-wiz] Off topic: Any one know of a good IPV6 reference
    > book?
    >
    > 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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