Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: "Tony Hain" <alh-ietf@xxxxxxxx> > > > David Conrad wrote: > > >> IPv6 _is_ IPv4 with more bits and it is being deployed that way. > > > No it is not, > > No less a person than the IPv6 'architect' himself stated that IPv6 and > IPv4 were architecturally identical, that IPv4 got it all basically right, > and that IPv6 was nothing more than IPv4 with a little cleaned up > engineering. > I'm sure it started out that way. It didn't end up that way. A few changes here and there had rather significant (perhaps unintended) effects. Keith _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf