On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Jim Fleming wrote:
Don't worry, Nicolas is inventing his own terminology.
Since IPv6 fragments the net, and disconnects users from the existing IPv4 base, it appears that one solution would be for IPv6 people to go off to their native IPv6 networks and invent whatever terminology they choose to invent.
That is not the main ideia. The ideia is to get everyone and every service in the new world. There is room for everyone. "IPv6 people" are people living in two worlds, using the "v6 world" when it is possible and the "v4 world" when it is not.
In that pure world, they would not have to worry about the evils of NAT, or the evils of TOS Routing,
Not "pure", there isnt 115.000 routes, but we already can see mistakes in the 400 we have...
or any of the other evolutionary transition approaches. People could pay their $25,000 per year for blocks of address space, and all live in bliss. Anyone paying that much probably has a right to invent whatever terminology they want to invent.
Some words turn out to be revolutionary, sometimes... :-) ./Carlos "Networking is fun!" -------------- [http://www.ip6.fccn.pt] http://www.fccn.pt <cfriacas@fccn.pt>, CMF8-RIPE, CF596-ARIN, Wide Area Network Workgroup F.C.C.N. - Fundacao para a Computacao Cientifica Nacional fax: +351 218472167