On Aug 26, 2010, at 1:51 PM, jean-michel bernier de portzamparc wrote: IPv6 in the press It's true that a marginally-informed person said that at DefCon. The scary part isn't that he said it, it's that he teaches courses at a junior college and therefore has the ear of a large number of even-less-well-informed people. It's true that some publicity-seeking journalist, doing no investigation and asking nobody who is better-informed what reality might be, wrote an article with the intention of creating publicity. What passes for journalism these days often has a pretty tenuous relationship with reality. There are in fact firewalls, if you consider a firewall to be a security solution. There is one format (RFC 4291) that puts a MAC address into an IPv6 address, just like XNS, IPX, DECNET V, and OSI did. you might take a look at RFC 4941. The predecessor of RFC 4941 was written in 2001, the last time this flap ran around the Internet. yada yada yada Go back to sleep. |
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