On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:10:10 +1200 (MAGST) Franck Martin <franck@genius.com> wrote:
The whole thread made me thought about this:
The energy that people are willing to spend to fix it (NAT, LSN), rather than bite the bullet is amazing.
Probably and sadly, they don't remember the Internet before NAT. I think Brantley Colie has somewhat redeemed himself by inventing ATA over Ethernet. http://www.coraid.com/COMPANY/Management Also, sadly, even though I'm an strong IPv6 advocate, I think a period of LSN/GCN is inevitable. There's now not enough time to properly convert from IPv4 to IPv6, and, also sadly, Jon Postel isn't around anymore to make subtle and veiled threats of loss of connectivity .. (http://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/museum/tcp-ip-digest/tcp-ip-digest.v1n6.1) ------------------------------ From: POSTEL at USC-ISIF Subject: Disabling NCPs There has been some talk of "forcing" the move to TCP by various administrative and policy measures. There was also a claim that there was no technical way to force the abandonment of NCP. It should be pointed out that a quite simple modification to the IMP program would enable the IMPs to filter out and discard all NCP traffic. As far as i know, there has been no decision to do this, but you should be aware that it is technical feasible. --jon. ------------------------------