Re: Issues with "prefer IPv6" [Re: Variable length internet addresses in TCP/IP: history]

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> On 02/23/2012 14:48, Ned Freed wrote:
> >> On 02/23/2012 13:51, ned+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> Old news perhaps, but an unavoidable consequence of this is that the
> >>> oft-repeated assertions that various systems have been "IPv6 ready for over 10
> >>> years" don't involve a useful definition of the term "ready".
> >
> >> The OP specified "IPv4 only network." I suspect that if he had IPv6
> >> connectivity his experience would have been quite different. I happily
> >> use Windows XP on a dual-stack network, for example.
> >
> > And systems running these old OS versions never under any circumstances move
> > from one network to another where connectivity conditions change. Riiight.

> Brian already covered "unconditional prefer-IPv6 was a painful lesson
> learned," and I'm not saying that those older systems did it right. What
> I am saying is that for most values of "IPv6 Ready" which included
> putting the system on an actual IPv6 network, they worked as advertised.

Which brings us right back to my original point: This definition of "ready" is
operationally meaningless in many cases.

				Ned
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