[ something did some horrifying things to the header of your mail as i received it, in particular the references: line, see appended. so i had to chop the refs off my reply. apologies to those who thread based on it. ]

I might totaly missunderstand you, but I get the feeling you want us to go back to the root of the IPv6 discussion when it all was started and use some of the stuff that was done before instead of trying to figure it all out again?

yep. though, since i come from the perspective of living it all these years, the "go back" part is a recent view :-). i.e. sane operational folk have been sining this song for years. there has been an amazing lack of ears listening to it. randy --- line breaks are not from here! References: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0511211704050.10258@chandra.student.uit.no><87slt m3p3n.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de><Pine.LNX.4.56.0511251013060.10258@chandra.stud ent.uit.no><4386E053.73B661B3@networx.ch><43886509.6060600@unfix.org><87acf r1mjl.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de><002f01c5f43a$12631110$44eea2d5@l><6.2.0.14.2.2 0051129101355.02919160@kahuna.telstra.net><87fypfpm1e.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de

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