[ipv6-wg at ripe.net] Re: [lir-wg] IXP networks routing

In message <20030304160219.E15927 at Space.Net>, Gert Doering writes:
>Hi,
>
>On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:35:56PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> IPv6 needs to fix the protocol errors in the political layer, soon.
>
>While I understand your argument, I do not consider the non-availability
>of IPv6 PI space an *error*.  (Speaking for myself).
>
>It means re-thinking some established ways to do things - things that 
>have caused large problems in the past, and might not have been an overly 
>good idea to start with.

Well, but those "established ways of doing things" may also happen
to be exactly why we could deploy IPv4 in the first place, and their
absense have provably hampered IPv6 deployment.

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