"Mike O'Dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [a pretty long rant]
Look, Mike, whether everything was handled ideally or not, we've got what we've got and it is being deployed. Its the best solution available for a set of significant problems we're currently facing. It does not fix all of them, but nothing does. We also can't go and say "if only the IETF had picked this idea instead" ad infinitum. > general availability has nothing to do with "being used" > the OSI protocol implementations were available on all major > platforms at the time. that didn't get them used by people. True enough. Of course, I know of no one who really used the OSI stack, whereas I can name a lot of people using v6 every day -- myself included -- and the growth rate is pretty astonishingly fast right now. Availability doesn't guarantee use, but lack of availability guarantees non-use. I think the reason the use picture has changed is that there was a lot of interest but no way to do anything about it until now. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NetBSD Development, Support & CDs. http://www.wasabisystems.com/
